Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second-generation outlaw who at 16 learned how to extract pure methamphetamine from common industrial chemical solutions in a laboratory hidden on an Indian reservation. He was tutored by two German chemists flown in by his father. Bernard can't pronounce methylmethamphetamine, but he knows how to make something very like it and how much to charge. "I've worked hard for everything I have," Bernard says, proudly citing the enduring American ethic...
...crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank goes eight times as far." It is obviously a more profitable line for American traffickers inclined to avoid exporting their earnings...
...never been arrested, and I've never used speed; you can't do that and survive what I do. But you really get an adrenaline rush from doing this sort of thing, and I'm an adrenaline junkie. If I wanted to keep on, I could make it big; I could make a couple million dollars...
Larry Bruce, the extraordinary dope lawyer, believes few retire voluntarily. "Some make it out," he says, "but this crank business is getting bigger. It's no longer limited to the backwoods, bikers and interstate truckers. It seems to me that I'm seeing as many arrests for possession of meth as for cocaine, and my user clients caught with meth are frequently young professionals and students. The business may be terrible -- it is terrible -- but you're looking at capitalism in action here. I wonder if it may be building toward critical mass...
...current crop of children's magazines feature the literary firepower of their forebears. But what they lack in name recognition they make up for in diversity. Nearly half, including Weekly Reader, Junior Scholastic and Science Weekly, are designed as teaching aids for the classroom. Outside school, magazines such as the venerable Boys' Life, Highlights for Children and the new U.S. Kids offer a combination of fiction and nonfiction stories, puzzles and contests. Then there is the fast-growing crop of special-interest magazines, including Cobblestone (history), Faces (anthropology), Odyssey (space exploration and astronomy), Cricket (fiction), Merlyn's Pen (student fiction...