Word: illicitness
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...Yard may have been subdued over intersession, but the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) remained hard at work. For those odds and ends of crime that seem to fit nowhere else, here’s a compilation of this week’s wacky and inane illicit activity...
...investigators working for a coalition of major U.S., European and Japanese tobacco companies indicates that North Korea has developed a highly lucrative source of hard currency: counterfeit cigarettes. The 11-page document, a copy of which was obtained by TIME, outlines in unprecedented detail the inner workings of this illicit business and the extent to which it may have led North Korea's rogue regime to ally itself with crime syndicates from mainland China and Taiwan...
...Based on information from undercover agents, informants and industry insiders, the report, which is dated June 29, 2005, offers a unique glimpse of the scale and sophistication of North Korea's illicit-cigarette industry, which has allegedly counterfeited a vast array of brands-from Marlboro to Davidoff. The report estimates that production from 10 to 12 North Korean factories in the counterfeiting business may total 41 billion cigarettes a year, generating annual revenues of $520 million to $720 million. It's not clear how much of this money flows to the regime of dictator Kim Jong Il, whether in duties...
...kills them first. One long-term study, published in May 2001 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, followed 581 male heroin users from 1962 to 1997. Nearly half the subjects were dead by the time the study ended. Of those still alive, many were self-medicating with multiple other illicit drugs or alcohol and 67% smoked cigarettes. Not surprisingly, heroin users suffer from a wide range of medical ills, including hypertension, liver and pulmonary diseases and HIV. But the most common cause of death from heroin is overdose, with 22% of the subjects in the long-term study dying that...
...ever condone criminal actions.) With the myriad openings and closings of businesses in Harvard Square, the environment just outside the borders of our College is becoming a whole lot less distinctive. WordsWorth, a bookstore the Boston Herald noted had “introduced generations of high schoolers to the illicit pleasures of Henry Miller, William Burroughs and Anais Nin,” closed last year. The Brattle Theatre might be gone too, assuming its drive to raise $400,000 by February fails. Without the Brattle, where are all the art snobs going to hook up? And what does...