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...looters, who are easier to catch. Last year Chinese courts meted out death penalties to at least four tomb raiders. "I know someone who was executed for looting a tomb," says Feng. "He made 580 yuan [$70]. Now, I hear the tricolor female statue he dug up was recently resold in New York for 150,000 yuan [$18,000]. No one is getting arrested in New York. How fair is that...
...profit in the sons' scams stems from exploiting local price differences. In Iraq, 20 liters of gasoline can be purchased for as little as 50¢ and resold in neighboring countries that produce no oil for as much as $10. Luxury items are smuggled in tax free by middlemen and then resold at a higher price. One big moneymaker for the sons involves trucking diesel fuel into Turkey. The trade has fallen off amid recent preparations for war, but at its high point, according to the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based human-rights group, some 45,000 Turkish truckers...
...percent to 5.56 million for 2002, another new record). And according to the National Association of Realtors, the national median existing-home price ended the year at $164,000, up 7.1 percent from 2001. That's the strongest annual increase since 1980; clearly, homes are being built, sold and resold at a pace not seen in decades...
...sold and resold under the classification “pet quality...
...Once grown and pressed, Afghan hash is sold to freelance truck and jeep drivers who take it to Tajikistan or Kabul, where it is resold at four times the price. It's then smuggled via Central Asia or Pakistan to the West, where Afghan hash finds many eager buyers. But as dope smokers celebrate the new "enlightened" view of pot, any thought of the distant, parched land where it is grown has been lost in the haze. Back in the dust-bowl fields around Mazar, the growing foreign demand and new freedom to exploit it translate into a rare chance...