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...stuff, resembling rock-candy granules, has a melting point half that of plain cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap...
...system. The empty buildings are warrens filled with dealing and supply points, escape routes and booby traps for police. Apartments are fortified: door ways are bricked up with cinder blocks, leaving only a small opening for the passing of drugs and money, or blocked by bunkers of diamond-plate steel. Some dealers sell by lowering buckets from apartment landings; the stairs leading to the landings have been removed. The big-time dealers organize "clubs" that change locations every few hours and employ as many as 40 people as lookouts, runners and baggers. There are even bouncers who check the needle...
...face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives, tens and 20s. No talkin' or we'll bust your honky heads." Finally the Captain is at the head of the line facing a battered red steel door. He puts $150 on a piece of cardboard protruding from under the door. It disappears. "What...
...seen the neonatal intensive-care units, big, immaculate rooms with stainless-steel-and-glass machines called Ohio beds, which cradled the premature infants. They were miniature people whose arms bristled with a series of tubes and needles going to a bank of computer screens and monitors. In a few cases, the infants thrive in that controlled, constricted environment, designed to give them the best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view...
...responsibility system has spread to nearly every sector of society, including industry, culture and the arts, public health and the military. Peking's Capital Iron and Steel Complex now gives bonuses to its 70,000 workers when they meet specific requirements. By 1985, according to the government, 72,000 hotels, restaurants, bathhouses and barbershops will switch to the new system. The businesses will pay taxes to the government. Anything earned above the taxes will be shared among employees or reinvested...