Sunday, November 26, 2006

Outsourcing Meth. America's methamphetamine manufacturers are the latest entrepreneurs to discover the advantages of moving their factories to the Third World. Spurred by a crackdown on rural labs and the sale of ingredients used to make crystal meth in the U.S., savvy speed producers have relocated to Mexico. Authorities there recently shut down the biggest meth factory ever found in the Americas. And it's not just a North American issue - like everything else, the crystal trade is global. Mexican meth makers are apparently importing their ingredients from China and India, via Hong Kong. Their number one market, of course, is still the U.S. [MotherJones.com | MoJo Blog - Social Issues and Political Commentary] 8:44:41 PM    comment []

Bookcase 'trap' killed US woman. The body of a missing US woman is found by her family, wedged upside down behind a bookcase in her room. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:06:33 AM    comment []

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