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That, however, was only a small taste of what was available through clandestine channels. At a village near Quanzhou, the WWF agent was treated to the sickening sight of 28 leopard skins, including six identified as the critically endangered Amur, believed to number only 40 in the world. The price: $380 apiece. Two taxidermy shops in Fuzhou offered more extravagant horror shows. "One had egrets, leopard cats, pangolins, slow lorises and eagles." The other shop contained "at least 100 animal specimens and must have had 500 birds -- kingfishers, hummingbirds, everything." The owner, she speculates, "may have connections in the local...
...Chinese on the muddy, gray waters of the Taiwan Strait. Often the pelts, along with Chinese antiques and traditional medicines, are traded by fishermen for Taiwanese electronics and consumer goods. The practice is so universal that when members of the Taiwan Coast Guard were asked by the WWF agent to estimate how many fisherman were engaged in smuggling, they laughed and replied, "All of them...
...Crimson reporter telephoned San Juan International Airport and was put through to the gate where Feldstein was about to board a flight to St. Thomas. The reporter could hear Feldstein being paged on the public address system, but there was no response. A few minutes later, a gate agent took the caller's name and phone number and then checked with a man who sounded like Feldstein. She then came back on the line to say that the gate was very busy and that she would make sure that the First Class flight attendant would get a message...
...favorite recreation, the annual Mensa murder weekend, when the geniuses gather to solve their perfect fantasy crime. "When a death threat appears on the doorstep," he wrote in a booklet for the event, "prudent people throw out all their food and watch what they eat." An undercover agent, planted in Mensa to befriend Trepal and learn his secrets, ultimately found the evidence against him: a small vial in the garage containing traces of thallium. How could a genius be so dumb...
...furious when an IRS audit in 1984 forced him to pay nearly $200,000 in taxes, interest and penalties on the sale of an $843,000 house in Houston. In 1988 George Bush ridiculed Michael Dukakis' plan to catch more tax avoiders and railed against "putting an IRS agent in every kitchen." What he really meant, it seems, is that he didn't want a taxman in every boardroom...