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...city's rave scene changed from spontaneous get-togethers to organized, clandestine parties complete with code words and secret phone lines, Papa and his friends were drawn to the action and quickly began to see the moneymaking possibilities. Using a supplier in Las Vegas, they began distributing low-grade ecstasy pills to clubs or wherever else the party drug was wanted. "Papa didn't need Sammy to teach him to be a gangster. He came by it honestly," explained a source familiar with the group. By all accounts, the ecstasy ring was led by Papa, a premed student...
...from Sammy. They became more aggressive, showed a lot of force and were more organized. It was almost like they were being schooled." They also began to use Gravano's name to intimidate other dealers and took to carrying guns. Almost overnight, police say, the gang became the top supplier of ecstasy in Arizona. At its height, police estimate, the ring was selling as many as 10,000 pills a week and raking in almost $1 million a month...
Then came the really hard part: negotiating the terms of the joint venture. For a year, Phil Murtaugh, a GM executive vice president, and Hu Maoyuan, his counterpart at Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., negotiated the details of supplier agreements, manufacturing and training protocols and all the other minutiae of setting up a car plant. They talked--and shouted--16 hours a day, seven days a week in a small office on Shanghai's Huashan Street. "I would say, 'I can't live with that, Mr. Hu. I'll get killed,' and he would say, 'My neck is under the blade...
...wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, engineers are set to analyze air turbulence in order to make superefficient wind-power turbines. In Japan scientists are perfecting paper-thin solar cells that will be cheap to produce and could turn every house into its own electricity supplier. These ventures, along with many others, are beginning to draw the outlines of a world in which energy use keeps rising and, though fossil fuels remain an important power source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere actually begin to drop...
...market maker" whose web page trumpets its expertise in "business-to-business online auctions for buyers of industrial parts, raw materials, commodities and services." For every different adhesive needed to attach label to bottle, Ping said, "they had at least four of five [online] bidders," each a national supplier. The winning bid represented a savings of 20 percent...