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Speed kitchens flourish in California because the Mexican syndicates smuggle ephedrine, a key ingredient that is tightly controlled in the U.S., across the border. In 1994 authorities busted 419 clandestine labs in California, compared with 272 in all the other states combined. "What Colombia is to cocaine, California is to methamphetamine," says Bill Mitchell, special agent in charge of the DEA's San Francisco office...
...GAME by John le Carre (Knopf). Despite much prophesying to that effect, the end of the cold war did not mean the end of the moral and political murk in which spying and spy thrillers flourish. Le Carre continues to be the master of this shadowy genre, and he is near the top of his form in his latest novel. His hero is a middle-age intelligence operative put to pasture by bosses who decide (wrongly, as it turns out) that his skills and mind-set are obsolete. A bittersweet love affair winds through a landscape of modern menace, whose...
Treasurer Alfred E. Alden E99 said he hopes the magazine will flourish...
Like other reformed communists, Kwasniewski owes much of his success to the pain caused by economic and political transformation. Five years of double- and sometimes triple-digit inflation wiped out savings, privatization eliminated jobs, the collapse of the police state allowed crime to flourish, and cash-strapped governments cut back on social services. "Conspicuous consumption," says Oxford University's Timothy Garton Ash, has coincided with "conspicuous immiserization...
...made turkey calls out of condoms and bits of wire. But from Maine to Florida, and in most of the rest of the country, they had been shot out in the early 19th century. Now, as a result of state restoration programs, more than 4 million wild turkeys flourish around...