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...years, and then dry-aging the meat for as long as three months. When I heard that he planned to slaughter five of these rare beasts for a side-by-side comparison of the effects of long aging on mature beef, I realized that for a mere $68 a kilo, I could settle the best-beef question for good...
...chocolate, dried fruit and dark cherry notes." Who knew? Not Rwandans, who don't drink the stuff. But they did notice the extra change in their pocket, and how foreigners were queuing up to buy their beans years in advance. "Suddenly, they're making more than $1 a kilo, up from 25 cents," says Schilling. Other farmers noticed too. Almost overnight, 116 copies of Schilling's washing stations sprang up nationwide. "The impact is huge, just huge," says Schilling. "It's key to Rwanda's rise...
...stolen gadgets in pubs, furtive traders today knock at the backdoor of upscale restaurants offering a new contraband: caviar. London's hordes of Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund yuppies have sent demand soaring for "black gold," with top varieties such as Beluga now selling for over $3,000 a kilo, whilst the rarest varieties, such as Almas ($50,000 per kilo), whose eggs are white, have a four-year waiting list. The soaring demand for sturgeon roe has created lucrative opportunities for "caviar cowboys," who sell illegally smuggled caviar to unscrupulous chefs willing to turn a blind...
...Despite their grim circumstances, many foreign inmates use their time inside to network, plotting future runs with other drug traffickers. "It's not good for someone who wants to think about stopping," a prisoner said. According to foreign inmates at the Los Teques prisons, a kilo of cocaine bought for $2,000 in South America can fetch around $25,000 in Europe - some prisoners were paid $4,000 for every kilo they carried, and could cart 10-12 kilos on any given trip. The pay scale makes it a tough profession to quit, even for middle-class twenty-somethings from...
...Control Policy estimates that opium production in Afghanistan, which not only provides 90% of the heroin consumed globally but also funds Taliban activities, rose 61% last year over 2005. Some 670 tons of heroin are expected to flood the market, and that should slash the street price of a kilo of Southwest Asian heroin, now about $90,000 in Los Angeles. Yet the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which annually loses some 3% of its 5,000 agents to attrition, has a two-year hiring freeze because of budget cuts to U.S. programs. DEA bean counters say they would need...