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...Latin American drug lords faced one big hurdle in targeting the European market: geography. Europe is thousands of kilometers from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru - home to the world's entire crop of coca leaves, from which the white powder of cocaine is refined. And Europe's sophisticated airport security systems and coastal patrols have made it tough to ship massive volumes of cocaine undetected. That means the cartels need transit points where they can store the huge amounts of the drug that they have moved across the Atlantic. It can then be divided among hundreds of smugglers who can individually...
...starting to seem as if the state of young female celebrity has devolved into an endless stream of DUIs, spray tans and Adderall prescriptions, take heart. There is a crop of actresses in the wings who have never been to jail, nor have they been photographed pantyless or passed out. Promises, to these young women, means things you keep, not a rehab in Malibu...
...felt in practically everything. It's so plentiful in the U.S. — 90 million planted acres this year – that it's used in the production of thousands of products, from plastics and paint to crayons and soap. And because as much as half of the nation's corn crop could soon be devoted to the production of ethanol fuel, corn prices are expected to rise dramatically, potentially pushing up the cost of numerous products, including packaged snacks and other consumer goods. With corn taking an increasing share of the planting space, prices may also rise for competing grains. That...
...that corn production has surpassed 10 billion bushels annually, competing crops, including rice and wheat, face price hikes as a result of substitution among grains. The U.S. corn crop accounts for about 40 percent of the global corn harvest, according to the Earth Policy Institute, and ethanol plants are consuming an ever-greater share. Japan may be particularly hard hit, given that it imports about 16 million tons of corn...
...good as it feels to have the family around, I hardly want that other four-year chapter to come to a close. But if it’s not where you are, but who you’re with, then perhaps the best things about college will continue to crop...