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...reality and getting the aid from planes to warehouses and then to the victims will be difficult. There is rising criticism that Garcia's micromanaging of the crisis is actually slowing down the process, with underlings afraid to make decisions that might contradict the president's plans for a shipment of aid. "The government is doing very much, which is important, but I think we need to leave the work at this point to the experts," says Ica Bishop Guido Brena. "There could be a moment when people think that this is being used for political benefit because...
...homicide prosecutor during the height of the city's crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. "It was the image of a woman forced to be a drug courier. But when we looked at those applying to change their sentences, there were only two women: one who supervised the shipment of 155 kilos of cocaine and the other had more than a pound of cocaine in her apartment...
...only a small fraction of that is actually tested for contaminants," said Stupak. Furthermore, food that is suspected of contamination is typically tested by private labs that the FDA has no jurisdiction over and which importers have learned to manipulate. There are also not enough staff members to give shipments more than a cursory look. In the San Francisco office, for example, four reviewers are overwhelmed to the point that they can typically devote only 30 seconds or less to each individual shipment. With the FDA allowing imports to come in at over 300 ports of entry, it would...
Colombians began to rent houses in Bissau in 2004, declaring themselves exporters of fish or cashew nuts, while in reality coordinating industrial-sized shipment and storage of cocaine from Latin America. One afternoon, an undercover detective drives me around Bissau to point out the mansions where the Colombians live. Erected on dirt lanes, they have Romanesque columns, walls with kitsch pastoral mosaics, and satellite dishes on their Spanish-style tiled roofs...
...dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away as Hyderabad and even Mumbai (formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything below standard. Uniformed men spray lemons with water, cover crates of coriander with moistened burlap to stop the greens wilting and scan bar codes on the end of each crate. Reliance will soon install air-conditioners to keep the warehouse at 18?C even when the outside...