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...usually made of fingers snipped from surgical gloves. The carriers, known as mules, gulp down the packets in Colombia with the intention of excreting them in the U.S. The danger to the mule is that a packet may rupture, causing a massive drug overdose. The technique is becoming either safer or less popular. Since late 1980, the Dade County coroner has not come across any body-packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport in New York, 51 mules have been arrested on the hoof: suspects are X-rayed...
...cocaine drowned with baby laxative," says the Captain in a voice as sharp as a razor blade. Three police cars scream past, their flashing lights turning the rain puddles red. A block ahead, the police swarm into a building. The Captain watches: "It's safer to score when the cops are all around. They usually let you go after they bust you and being busted is better than being dead." Last year the Captain was shot five times in the chest by a man who wanted the small bag of heroin that he had just bought. The Captain spent...
...nuclear age, it may be safer when each side has only spears...
...ways to keep some in the food and liquor business, says Bill. One way is to clear the cash register a few hours before closing time, so that part of the day's sales go unrecorded. Since the state keeps a close watch on liquor sales, it is safer to record the liquor sales and cheat on food. Bill says he knows one owner who grosses $500,000 a year from his nightclub but reports only $100,000 on his tax returns. "Stealing money from the IRS requires that the owners of the business do it," says Bill...
...came a piece in Reader's Digest (circ. 17.9 million), then a broadside from the top-rated CBS-TV show 60 Minutes (audience: 22.9 million households). In a scene that Protestant leaders were to denounce as unrepresentative, cameras panned a Methodist church in Logansport, Ind., and Correspondent Morley Safer intoned that members had discovered that some collection-plate money was being spent "on causes that seem closer to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world than Logansport...