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Several major people-smuggling cases show how rewarding the business has become. Just since 1988, authorities have arrested 30 smugglers along the U.S.-Canadian border. The top gun: Cheng Chui-Ping, 41, a woman who was nabbed in Vancouver in December. Cheng, who began life as a peasant in southern China's Fujian province, has allegedly built a $30 million fortune by smuggling thousands of Chinese into New York City. Cheng has gone free on $50,000 bail, and officials fear that she is back in business. "Cheng is the biggest we've ever arrested, but she's not even...
...when the pressure was on, the Hawks adapted better to the fifth game's Ping-Pongesque rally scoring. which allows a team to win a point on its opponent's serve...
...Cabot Grill, for example, has an adjoining room which contains a pool table, a ping-pong table, three arcade games, a Foosball machine and a piano. The large-screen TV and VCR are in another room...
...improve U.S. subs' tracking ability, one option is to "go active" by electronically transmitting a "ping" that would locate a target when the sound waves bounce back from it. The problem: echoes from the ping would also disclose the location of the tracker, even if the ping were generated from a third source, such as a buoy towed behind the sub or dangled in the water by a helicopter. The alternative is nonacoustic detection. For example, researchers are exploring ways of sensing a submarine's magnetic field, its thermal radiation or the turbulence in its wake. Some are even studying...
...Born on the Fourth of July, Cruise had no Hoffman to play actor's Ping- Pong with. In front of the camera, he was on his own. Behind it, he would be led by two Viet Nam vets, Stone and Kovic. "I chose Tom," Stone says, % "because he was the closest to Ron Kovic in spirit. I sensed that they came from the same working-class Catholic background and had a similarly troubled family history. They certainly had the same drive, the same hunger to achieve, to be the best, to prove something. Like Ron too, Tom is wound real...