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...most explosive conflicts--and the biggest hauls--are taking place in California. As enforcement tightens along U.S. borders, especially since 9/11, it is getting harder to transport drugs into America. So Mexican traffickers have turned to creating vast marijuana plantations Stateside, that much closer to their main customers. Thanks to a mild climate, rich soil and a lengthy, March-to-October growing season, California cultivators routinely produce 10-ft.-high specimens worth up to $4,000 each. Some of these California pot farms stretch over several hundred acres and have as many as 50,000 plants. Last year...
...Italian transport planners always run the risk of unearthing archeological riches that can put the brakes on subway expansion projects. But the sometimes chaotic southern city of Naples is doing the reverse: deliberately putting modern art underground. The No Places project, whose latest edition was unveiled in July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project...
...they made a concerted effort to lure retirees like Litzky into customer-service positions. Management scoured outlying communities for willing seniors, advertising in local newspapers and posting notices at senior centers. To ease the long commute to and from some areas, the Diamondbacks organized a shuttle-bus service to transport workers to the stadium in downtown Phoenix. The bus today carries 40 to 45 employees back and forth to their jobs at home games...
...Officers assisted Massachusetts State Police with a medical transport at John F. Kennedy Park...
...western Iraq was assassinated. The daily average number of attacks on U.S. forces is now 12, and the sophistication of the weaponry is increasing. A number of mortar attacks have been reported in recent weeks, and on Wednesday a surface-to-air missile was fired at a U.S. transport plane landing in Baghdad. (It missed...