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...five years of investigations took my agents all over the country and occasionally overseas, and filled our evidence rooms with crates of reworked scrap and other counterfeit parts. Yet the FAA would shrug off what it called "suspected unapproved parts" as a paperwork problem. Some manufacturers made parts without the right FAA permits; others sold certified parts that were overruns and didn't have FAA approval. Unapproved parts could be those that were not manufactured or repaired under authorized procedures. One of the largest aviation manufacturers in the world is Pratt & Whitney, maker of one of the most popular...
...revelation. For years, China's citizens couldn't watch the evening news without being reminded of their darker sides, of the grasping, reckless self-interest that has characterized China's headlong rush to become wealthy and powerful: stories of slave labor and child-kidnapping rings, rampant government corruption, counterfeit products, tainted food, dangerous toys and, lately, a crackdown on dissent in Tibet. But from a monstrous humanitarian crisis has come a new self-awareness, a recognition of the Chinese people's sympathy and generosity of spirit. The earthquake has been a "shock of consciousness" as scholar Jiang Wenran puts...
...revelation. For years, China's citizens couldn't watch the evening news without being reminded of their darker side, of the grasping, reckless self-interest that has characterized China's headlong rush to become wealthy and powerful--stories of slave labor and child-kidnapping rings, rampant government corruption, counterfeit products, tainted food, dangerous toys and, lately, the brutal crackdown on dissent in Tibet. But from a monstrous humanitarian crisis has come a new self-awareness, a recognition of the Chinese people's sympathy and generosity of spirit. The earthquake has been a "shock of consciousness," as Wenran Jiang, a China...
With the East European protection rackets acting as a replacement criminal-justice system, they defined what was legal and what illegal. And legal was anything that brought in a profit - so along with oil, food, furniture and cars, markets were established in drugs, caviar, trafficked women and counterfeit cigarettes; the networks would bring to market anything that would sell. By the mid-1990s, the U.S. government had recognized that something pretty ugly was underway in the postcommunist world. Jon Winer, the architect of the Clinton Administration's anti-organized-crime strategy, traces its development. "In '93-'94 I started working...
...Angie, she could be a Conshohocken crumpet, the idiot spawn of two siblings, the ramshackle hovel in which Kate?s baby is imprisoned. Instead, she?s spirited, resourceful and crafty of mouth, always ready to parry an accusation with some counterfeit common sense. She?s also smart enough to overcome the garbage education daytime TV has saddled her with. The meeting of disparate souls brings with it the inevitable apology swap. Kate: ?I?m sorry I called you stupid.? Angie: ?I?m sorry I farted into your purse...