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...greet you in verse rhymed and metric...
...Silas Cochise, a relative of the famed 19th century Apache chief Cochise and the manager of a project designed to bring at least 20,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear power plant waste to the land of the Mescalero Apaches in return for up to $250 million in benefits over up to 40 years, quoted in the Boston Globe...
...drug busters, Burma is Asia's mother lode, the source of 60% of the heroin coming into America. Last year, officials say, Burma seized less than 1% of the estimated 2,575 metric tons of opium its drug lords produced...
Here the up-front American blandishments are staggering. North Korea gets: 1) a free supply of oil, 500,000 metric tons a year, for the next eight to 10 years; 2) construction of two shiny new nuclear reactors worth $4 billion, also free; 3) diplomatic ties with the U.S., which will immediately lead to 4) diplomatic ties with Japan, from which will flow 5) aid and trade and whatever else the North Korean regime needs to keep going -- and keep threatening South Korea...
...year, recovering shiny, fist-size spheres of plutonium called pits -- the elemental core of a bomb -- which it is putting into storage. A purchaser who acquired one of these would have the key ingredient of a bomb. Over the next 10 years, the U.S. and Russia will take 100 metric tons of plutonium out of warheads, and their nuclear-power industries will produce an additional 110 tons. By then there will be enough plutonium in storage worldwide to build 42,000 atom bombs...