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...Mounties have focused instead on breaking up the organized-crime groups that have broken into the business. Gangs ranging from outlaw bikers to Latin American and Asian gangs are moving into B.C. pot cultivation--and also into lucrative cross-border smuggling and distribution. The Mounties have been busting more and more large-scale operations, often located in warehouse-size buildings, with strings of light bulbs as bright as stadium lights and computer-controlled hydroponic systems for fertilizing and watering several hundred plants. The smugglers move the stuff on every conceivable conveyance--over back roads in four-wheel-drive vehicles, through...
...intellectually challenging. On one level, the play is about A. E. Housman, the Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and scholar, at age 77 dreaming he has returned to the Oxford of his youth. It's also about the love of language and the language of love (i.e., the earliest Latin love poetry). There are some snooze-inducing stretches dealing with English academe, but overall the deeply rewarding Wilma production sparkles...
Perez says Aguilera, who speaks little Spanish, is working with a language coach for the new CD, which will feature Spanish versions of her hits as well as new Latin-flavored songs. "There's no one else in the Latin market who can sing like her, with that whole black R.-and-B. thing she has from growing up in the U.S. and listening to Etta James and performers like that," says Perez. "By adding in these new elements to Latin music, she'll take it to new places...
Aguilera is not only pioneering a different type of teen stardom but she may spark a new trend as well: reverse Latin crossover. Her father is from Ecuador and her mother is Irish American; they divorced when she was seven and, since then, she has had little contact with her dad. Lately she has grown more interested in her cultural heritage. Now that she's a mainstream star, she wants to be a Latin star too, and she's recording a Latin version of her debut CD. Says Rudy Perez, who is producing the project: "She sees Ricky [Martin...
...coca-hunting Bell and Sikorsky helicopters that the Clinton Administration wants to ship to Colombia to help wipe out cocaine and heroin just happen to be needed at exactly the same time that U.S. helicopter builders are looking for new customers. It is a neat fit: Colombia and other Latin American nations can use the aircraft; U.S. helicopter builders can use the orders. The Administration's aid package calls for 30 new Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, at $10 million each, and 33 Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 Hueys, outfitted with new engines and other improvements, for $1.5 million each...