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...Suva, Fiji's capital - had been leased by a trader from Hong Kong. The crystal methamphetamine, or ice, being "cooked" inside was destined, says Fiji Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes, for "the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Europe." The cops who swooped on the building June 9 - finding 5 kg of the glassy drug and enough chemicals to make a metric ton of it - came from Fiji, Australia and New Zealand. Of the suspects arrested that day, one was Fijian-born, two were Chinese Fijians and four held Hong Kong passports; by week's end, raids in Hong Kong and Malaysia...
Solo smugglers like yachtsmen and hippie wanderers have crisscrossed the South Pacific for decades. But organized crime didn't cast much of a shadow over the region until 2000, when police in Suva seized 350 kg of heroin bound for Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Since then, the law-enforcement radar has blipped increasingly often over Fiji. In 2002, 74 kg of methamphetamine was found on a ship in Singapore headed for Fiji and Australia; the same year Hawaiian police busted a syndicate that smuggled cocaine and ice to the U.S. mainland, Tonga, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand; and last...
...Frayer (66 kg.) ended up finishing in fifth place and went 2-2 on the weekend...
...best finish for any of the Harvard affiliates in the Olympic trials. No. 11 Dawid Rechul ’02 (96 kg.) went 2-2 on the weekend, but upset No. 6 Chad Lamer in the first round. No. 8 Danielle Hobeika ’01 (55 kg.) lost the only two matches she wrestled...
...before." The 50-km race is so grueling, he says, that it will punish those who don't prepare fully during that last week, from tracking the weather in preparation for the heat and humidity to making race weight (the 1.68-m-tall Korzeniowski's is a trim 62 kg) to readying the right electrolyte-replacement drinks (he'll consume 4 L of those and 4 L of water). "There are no surprises," he says. "If I don't win, there was something wrong with my plan of action." One last gold would not only cement his place as walking...