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...economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana plants. U.S. consumer demand for their output has increased as well. Mexico's illicit heroin- refining labs have upgraded their equipment so that their product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana has made a comeback with bargain-minded smokers; it costs only $100 or less an ounce on the street, compared with $200 for California's superpotent sinsemilla...
...experiment that was not as spectacular as the main mission of retrieving crippled satellites, but potentially no less important. The company was studying how organic crystals grow in orbit. By combining chemicals in containers in the weightlessness of space, 3M's scientists were hoping to make crystals purer than any on earth...
Luckily for the survivors, most analysts predict record Christmas sales, whipped up by promotion campaigns timed to coincide with the start of the buying blitz. Apple and IBM are expected to spend $30 million each on advertising before Christmas. Says InfoCorp Analyst Howard Purer: "December should just go off the page." - By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
Officials fear that as the powder's retail worth falls, new, less affluent buyers will become regular customers. The going price per gram is $75 to $100; the glut could cut that to $50 or even $25. Coke is reaching the streets in a purer, stronger form. All this worries Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner: "If the price drops and there is an increase in purity," he warns, "you're going to have a lot more deaths from snorting and free-basing...
...want to establish a strong commitment to women's athletics, and the round-robin system is a purer method of determining a champion," said Brown athletic director John Parry. "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens is the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...