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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three daughters of his own (his family thinks he is a building contractor), is to collect three 12-year-old girls and take them to Kuala Lumpur as prostitutes. As they are virgins, they will fetch $4,700 each. He hates doing it, Joe says, grimacing again, but he's only a lower level operative, a cog in a huge machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Money | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

...level up from buyers like Samnang are the brokers who collect large orders from buyers and arrange for the gun shipments. Chay, a broker in his early 30s, seems nervous when we meet just after dawn in the urine-redolent upper room of a bar 15 minutes outside Bangkok. A heavily built Thai, Chay fidgets a lot, looking down at his hands. His discomfort may be caused by his boss who is sitting at another table, an obese, balding man in his 50s who scowls behind thick, gold-rimmed glasses and cigar smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Money | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

...wide crackdown on terrorists, it could become an inviting haven for bad guys on the run?and a launch site for future attacks. Evidence uncovered in the past few weeks proves that the groups have the means to cause terrible devastation. After interrogating Fathur, Philippine authorities were able to collect what National Police Chief Leandro Mendoza called the "biggest haul of explosives in the country's history." Police recovered more than a ton of TNT?enough to level a city block, according to police?as well as 500 detonators and 17 M-16 rifles. Police say they are still tracking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Untangling The Web | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...perfectly yellow. We even implemented a leaf classification system. Special-class leaves could be blown in the actors' faces, first-class in front of them, second-class behind them and third-class were scattered on the ground." A mat gathered leaves as they fell so the crew could collect, clean and classify them, then gently send them drifting back down again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making of a Hero | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

Back at the scene of the incident, exam proctors were the first back into the Science Center. Harvard University Police Department officers allowed them to collect all exams and exam material...

Author: By Adam M. Lalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scare Wreaks Scheduling Havoc | 1/19/2001 | See Source »

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