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...alternative is being a "mule," smuggling heroin into the U.S. That involves swallowing packets of the drug (62 of them in her case) in Colombia and excreting them once she has cleared customs in El Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby...
...ceiling, anytime soon. And the euro doesn't seem to be hurting from the violations - which raises the question of how crucial the stability and growth pact is in the first place. - With reporting by Tadeusz L. Kucharski Cutting Hedge The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to avert fraud in the growing $850 billion hedge fund industry, took a step toward requiring the funds' advisers to register with the regulator and open their books to inspection...
...added that it continues to be important to avert conflicts of interest stemming from researcher ties with outside companies...
...goal of Your Disease Risk is to show people that they can change their behaviors to avert prevalent, life-altering conditions, said HCCP Director Graham A. Colditz in a press release...
...Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary, the supreme threat to liberty arose from insufficient government power. To avert that, he advocated a vigorous central government marked by a strong President, an independent judiciary and a liberal reading of the Constitution. As the first Secretary of State, Jefferson believed that liberty was jeopardized by concentrated federal power, which he tried to restrict through a narrow construction of the Constitution. He favored states' rights, a central role for Congress and a comparatively weak judiciary...