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...mail report to CDS. Investigator revealed that the two were deleting orders from the corporate books after they were processed, pocketing the revenues and building their own company from within. The program picked up on their plan to return to the office late one night to swipe a large shipment of electronics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberveillance | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...were finding it everywhere," says a police source. Shortly after the Phoenix police began climbing the distribution ladder, they began to hear one name over and over. It was Gravano. As the police were dealing with low-level dealers, the Drug Enforcement Agency intercepted a large Federal Express shipment of ecstasy in San Francisco. Faced with arrest, the dealer mentioned a name that stopped the feds in their tracks: Gravano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is...A Pill?: Crime: Ecstasy In Arizona: A Cop and Bull Story | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...came to the U.S. for treatment after a plane crash and was studying environmental law when Colombian prosecutors asked that he be detained. On Dec. 3, 1998, police there seized seven tons of cocaine in Cartagena. Prosecutors claim $350,000 of Tafur's money was being used for the shipment. But Tafur has bank records that show the $350,000 in question was part of a widow's pension the Colombian Congress had awarded to his mother. Tafur's father, a legislator who helped draft the extradition treaty, was assassinated by narco-traffickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The DEA's Big Bust: Did They Get the Wrong Guy? | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...billions to set up separate distribution systems. Although U.S. farmers lose millions in exports annually because of E.U. consumer fears about their crops, the U.S. negotiating team was prepared to walk out rather than cede the point. In the end, negotiators agreed to settle for labels that note the shipment may contain some genetically modified material. That particular label may become a common sight on European loading docks; nearly 50 percent of soybeans (and 35 percent of the corn) grown in the U.S. are genetically modified, and that number is bound to rise, especially if this agreement helps to allay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Frankenfood' Gets Labels... Sort Of | 1/30/2000 | See Source »

Electronics dealer Crutchfield.com isn't the only e-tailer that e-mails customers to confirm that an order has been received, and e-mails again when the shipment has left the warehouse. But the company is one of the savvy few that post whether a given item is in stock (a more helpful variation of Amazon's "usually ships within 24 hours"). Many consumers Gomez surveyed said they wished more sites tracked inventory in real time, Frankle notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How'd They (E-Companies) Do? | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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