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...team whose best player, Ted Williams, will remain on ice for at least the remainder of the post-season—is the sort of quirk that many pick up in their college years and come to regret passionately upon graduation. But unlike a gauche tattoo or a heroin habit, Sox support can be tucked under the rug easily right now, before the shame of defeat strikes its certain blow. There’s still time not to be a loser...
...Bush administration’s support for a crackdown on heroin production in Afghanistan may spark a rise in AIDS throughout central Asia, a drug policy expert told an Institute of Politics forum last night...
Sanho Tree, of the Institute for Policy Studies—a Washington-based think-tank—warned that many addicts in countries surrounding Afghanistan have become dependent on pure heroin, the only type which can be smoked. But if U.S. anti-drug policies reduce the amount of pure heroin available, addicts will be forced to use impure heroin, which requires injection, Tree said...
...They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...Before Jing could be executed, however, fortune handed him a reprieve. Lanzhou police arrested a dealer who admitted that he had helped officers set Jing up for a drug rap. Jing won a second trial?and the real story came out. The arresting officers had planted the heroin. They had coerced Jing's confession by shocking him with electric batons and hanging him by his handcuffed wrists until "the blood poured down my arms," Jing testified during his trial. By the time of his release last January, the cab driver had spent more than a year on death...