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...help save the planet, Leo joins a distinguished list of notables who have used their celebrity to draw attention to environmental issues. TV actor TED DANSON founded the American Oceans Campaign, Academy Award winner SUSAN SARANDON is an avid supporter of Mark Plotkin's Amazon Conservation Team, STING throws an annual rain-forest benefit concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall, writer ARUNDHATI ROY has campaigned to stop the building of dams on India's Narmada River, Hong Kong actor CHOW YUN-FAT has done promotional work for the World Wildlife Fund, and Brazilian singer GILBERTO...
...tales of exotic stakeouts and drug busts. (He spent much of his career in France and North Africa.) And he took special pleasure in pointing out the collection's more unusual artifacts: the Superfly fur coat and alligator-skin platform shoes donned by an agent for a 1970s undercover sting; an unlucky drug lord's diamond-handled revolver; a hollowed-out, lime-green surfboard used to smuggle drugs off the coast of Florida. And there's much more...
Kolakowski's work, most of which involves crimes against children, can be tedious: he and two fellow deputies, also Gen Xers adept at navigating the Internet, often spend months probing chat rooms and websites. And even after the deputies pull off a successful sting and arrest, antiquated state laws can make it difficult to win a conviction. The situation frustrates Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano. "It's like being on the side of the freeway where everybody's speeding," he says. "You get some, but so many just blow right...
...cross the third, they were spotted. One of Kadriu's brothers-in-law was shot dead on the spot. Kadriu and the other brother-in-law ran for the woods. The brother-in-law was shot in the leg, but kept running and survived. Kadriu felt a bullet sting his face, fell to the ground and played dead. Much of one side of his previously handsome face, including his entire nose and an eye, had been removed by the shot...
...elaborate sting last summer, customs agents and the Drug Enforcement Administration helped dismantle a far-flung ecstasy empire run by a Canadian based in Amsterdam who allegedly claimed he could sell 100,000 hits of ecstasy in Miami--in 48 hours. The mastermind was using pious-looking Hasidic Jews as couriers. (Israeli organized crime dominates the global trade, according to the U.S. government...