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  • In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa, whose father was jailed in the U.S. for three years for carrying drugs, pardoned hundreds of low-level drug couriers known as mules.

    Mexico Eases Ban on Drug Possession José de Cordoba 2009

  • Where all the parts necessary to life in these compound animals were formed sufficiently perfect, except the parts of generation, those animals were produced which are now called mules.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • And that those animal and vegetable mules, which could continue their species, have done so, and constitute the numerous families of animals and vegetables which now exist; and that those mules, which were produced with imperfect organs of generation, perished without reproduction, according to the observation of Aristotle; and are the animals, which we now call mules.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Brewer has said the motivation of "a lot" of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules."

    John McCain Disagrees With Jan Brewer's Drug 'Mule' Comment (VIDEO) 2010

  • Brewer said the motivation of "a lot" of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules."

    Jan Brewer: Most Illegal Immigrants Are Smuggling Drugs 2010

  • It is entirely possible that Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals eventually began to interbreed, but the offspring produced were sterile 'mules.'

    Why We Finally Stop Hunting 2008

  • I wondered what the difference could be between back furrowing or any other furrowing, but rather than expose my ignorance, said nothing, preferring to trust to luck and the "mules."

    Twenty Years of Hus'ling 1885

  • States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules."

    Inform - U.S. Politics 2010

  • States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules."

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <B>By Paul Davenport</B><br><I>The Associated Pres 2010

  • States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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