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...provide a "safe haven" to factories run by overseas counterfeiting syndicates. Three of the factories that are said to be located in the Rajin area on the northeast coast of North Korea are allegedly run or financed by crime syndicates from Taiwan. One of these factories, equipped with second-hand equipment from China, has allegedly counterfeited such brands as Mild Seven, Dunhill and Benson & Hedges. According to the report, another factory in Rajin employed 120 people and was run by Chinese supervisors and technicians; North Korean officials were allegedly paid a "tax" on the factory's cigarettes, which were then...
...nurse costumes, school-girl outfits, police accessories, and wings. One rule applies to almost every Halloween season, Christopher said: “People want to be either sexy or scary.”At Mass. Ave.’s busy and crowded Oona’s, a popular second-hand store, owner Kathleen M. White dealt with the Halloween costume rush. She said it’s the 34th the store has seen. A seasoned Cambridge entrepreneur, White knew about the various costume-themed parties happening around campus this weekend.One group of Harvard girls came into the store...
...opinion as to what disastrous effects Nora Roberts and Danielle Steele were wreaking upon modern society. But when the TF asked what the “purely hypothetical” reader might gain from such a novel, the 15-person section abruptly fell silent. Ten audible ticks of the second-hand later, one of the bolder sophomores admitted, “Well, they’re titillating...
...cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg's Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication in Sweden. "They are read by young people, immigrants, the unemployed and people with low income. This is very positive." And free news doesn't necessarily mean second-hand news. Staffed with more than 400 journalists worldwide, Metro International fills an average 50% of its pages with news-agency content, down from 80% 10 years ago. At 20 Minutes, wires account for between 20% and 30%. "A year and a half ago, a politician wouldn't give interviews...
...WHAT DID YOU DO? I didn't go inside. I know that 20 minutes of exposure to second-hand smoke starts creating cardiovascular problems for me. But what about all the people who don't know that...