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average across the OECD) and nearly half of Mexicans find it difficult or very difficult to get by on their current in- come.
Mexicans report the third highest positive psychological experiences (feeling rested, smiling, learning, and enjoy- ment) and lower than average negative experiences (pain,
6 percent in 2007. About 20 million such batteries will cross the border this year, according to United States trade statis-
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tember, more than 60 18- wheelers full of old batteries crossed the border each day, trade records show.
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tics, and that does not take into account batteries smuggled in as mislabeled metal scrap or second-hand goods. In Sep-
Spent batteries house up to 40 pounds of lead, which can cause high blood pressure, kid- ney damage and abdominal pain in adults, and serious de- velopmental delays and behav- ioral problems in young children because it interferes with neu- rological development. Bad guys in paradise.
With the help of an international smuggling ring, the playboy son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was plotting to sneak into Mexico under a false name and live near Puerto Vallarta. But Saadi Gaddafi
worry, stress, sadness, depres- sion).
Only one in four Mexicans express high trust in others, the third lowest rate in the OECD, and well below the OECD average of 59 per cent. Battery dumping. Old
never made it to Mexico, thanks to Mexican authorities. Two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Dane formed the smuggling ring and were arrested last month. The 38-year-old and three relatives were to travel to Mexico using fake documents that gave them new names and
Mexican citizenship. The plot involved a multi-million-dollar refuge, a network of safe houses, illicit bank accounts and private jets criss-crossing the globe from the Middle East to Kosovo to Canada, said Mexico's Interior Minister, Alejandro Poire.
batteries Americans turn in for recycling are increasingly be- ing sent to Mexico, where their lead is often extracted by crude methods that are illegal in the United States, exposing plant workers and local residents to dangerous levels of a toxic metal.
The rising flow of batteries is a result of strict new U.S.
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Environmental Protection Agency standards on lead pol- lution, which make domestic recycling more difficult and expensive, but do not prohibit companies from exporting the work and the danger to coun- tries where standards are low and enforcement is lax. Lead batteries are crucial to cellphone networks, solar power arrays and the explod- ing Chinese car market, and the demand for lead has in- creased as much as tenfold in a decade. About 20 percent of spent American vehicle and industrial batteries are now exported to Mexico, up from
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