Word: mule
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...alternative is being a "mule," smuggling heroin into the U.S. That involves swallowing packets of the drug (62 of them in her case) in Colombia and excreting them once she has cleared customs in El Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby...
...credit, Wyoming, the least populous state in the U.S., does not feel like an ideal place for a terrorist attack. The 493,800 people who live here have a well-deserved affection for the state's yawning prairie land, framed by mountains and speckled with elk, antelope and mule deer. Wyoming's biggest city is Cheyenne, the capital, which is still not serviced by jet liners. "It's very hard to hide in Wyoming," says Joe Moore, head of Wyoming's office of homeland security, on my first morning in town. "By the end of the day, everyone will know...
...Gov’t Mule, a visceral blues and jazz-based band, meets up with Chris Robinson and his band, New Earth Mud. Go to hear Robinson’s music instead of seeing his picture in the tabloids with pregnant wife Kate Hudson. 7:30 p.m., $25, Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place, Boston...
MUSIC | Gov’t Mule, Chris Robinson and New Earth...
Singer-Songwriter PW Long is back after a five-year hiatus. After serving in hillbilly rock bands Mule and Redfoot, he has released a solo album, Remembered. Long is joined by The Brought Low, who can only be described as the best Southern Rock band you’re going to find in Brooklyn and Antler. 9 p.m., $9; 18+. Middle East Upstairs...