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Unfortunately, prescription drugs are often far easier to obtain than illegal ones. Some teenagers come by their pills legitimately but trade them for others, like painkillers, that hold more appeal because of their more potent high. Others order from shady Internet pharmacies where prescriptions aren't always required. Still others take advantage of the fact that neither doctors nor parents tend to think of prescription medications as drugs of abuse. That makes it a fairly easy proposition to fake or exaggerate symptoms in order to persuade physicians to write prescriptions, or to pillage medicine cabinets for pills left forgotten...
There was only one hitch: waiting for the man in Chicago's O'Hare airport were FBI agents who were tracking his travels as part of an investigation and wanted to interview him. The FBI had to appeal to the TSA to get the man off the list, and the next day he flew to Chicago. The investigation is still under...
...Monte Carlo?or, for that matter, in Nice and Cannes, both of which combine glamour, history, good food, a healthy climate and the flamboyant luxury of megayachts. By all means bring a casino to Hong Kong. But make it Monte Carlo, not Macau, which today has little more visual appeal than Shenzhen. Hong Kong does not need millions of low-income tourists playing pennies on the tables or in the slot machines. It does not need to cover its beautiful islands with holiday villas for businessmen and bureaucrats from Guangdong and high-rise hotels ? la Benidorm...
...convicted in March of orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled the telecommunications giant; to 25 years in prison, the latest and harshest in a string of recent sentences for white-collar executives; in New York City. Under federal guidelines, Ebbers, who maintained his innocence and plans to appeal, must serve at least 85%, or 21 years, of the term, making it all but a life sentence...
...tried to lodge a lawsuit against the Shaanxi government on behalf of drillers and investors. The suit was rejected by a provincial court on grounds that the evidence presented was "not objective." About two months ago, when Zhu visited the province to meet with peasants to prepare an appeal, police arrested him for "disturbing social order." As with nine former well owners detained in May and June on the same charges, police have denied Zhu access to counsel...