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American businessmen traveling to Lagos should prepare by getting more than just a passport and a yellow-fever shot. These days, they should also bring along an unlimited expense account or a stash of cash. Reason: the capital of Nigeria is now the world's most expensive city, according to Business International, a New York consulting firm. Indeed, with such eye-opening price tags as $156.25 for a hotel room, $625 a week for car rental, $48.88 for a meal for one and $350 for a night on the town with three clients, a businessman's expense statement...
...burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal 1 bbl. of oil, one of the odder statistics to emerge from the region). Yet officials estimate that perhaps as much as ten times the amount seized was smuggled into the region. At the moment, Bade County police have a stash of 162,000 Ibs. of marijuana waiting to be entered as evidence in court cases. The Customs Service has 200 seized cigarette boats and 50 airplanes, including a World War II-era A26 bomber that was, ironically, used by Customs agents on drug cases before it was bought...
...richest stash of evidence was found at an apartment building in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where police had spotted one of the getaway cars used in the Brink's job, a tan Ford. Inside the building, investigators found bloodstained clothing, incriminating fingerprints and a very observant superintendent named Dennis Vasquez. Vasquez told police and federal agents that just hours before their arrival, he had seen five people load the contents of an apartment into a tan van and other vehicles. From photographs, he and his wife identified the five: Cynthia Priscilla Boston, 33, and her common-law husband, William Johnson...
...anybody with a ready stash of cash can become ensnared in freebasing, as is shown by the experience of Mary (not her real name), 25, the owner of a dog kennel in Sonoma County, Calif. Mary was appalled when her brother, manager of an auto-parts store, sold his car, quit his job and began obsessively freebasing. Despite her concern, she tried it too and soon became just as hooked...
While gold has not been used to settle accounts between central banks for a decade, it still remains the barometer of world tension. From mud and straw shanties in India to plush villas in France, nervous people stash away Krugerrand coins or gold jewelry at the first sign of any political or economic unrest. Last week, after the Israel's attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor, the price of gold immediately shot...