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...suspects are X-rayed and, if they do not confess, put in a hospital with a bedside commode and two patient customs guards. "The packets often come out like machine gun bullets, with a loud report," says Customs Inspector Peter di Rocco. A mule commonly ingests upwards of a pound of coke inside 100 packets or more...
...fantastic lifestyle, he doesn't have to go to work at 7 a.m., and there are few dissatisfied customers." The agent might have been describing Leonard, a former social worker who sold cocaine for six years until he decided to quit the business in 1981. He bought a pound at a time...
...every pound authorities grab, another six sift out into the marketplace, an estimated 45 tons a year. Cocaine has become a $25 billion business, about three times as big as the recording and movie industries put together. (The manufacture of cocaine paraphernalia is a small industry in itself: users spend millions of dollars a year on coke spoons, free-base pipes and extraction kits, digital gram scales and the like.) Selling coke is, in the words of one U.S. drug official, "the most lucrative of all underworld ventures...
...program a computer to behave exactly like a coach When asked whether they thought a computer could replace humans on the sidelines or on the field, both the Yale and Harvard coaches quickly dismissed the idea Said Kelly. "A computer is never going to replace a 6'4". 235-pound fullback that is fast...
...These dogs are just stray animals that nobody wants and would be put to death by the pound anyway," said Barger, who played an important role in the law's passage in 1956. More than 250,000 dogs are destroyed by the state each year, so doctors use only about one percent for research, he added...