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...short of building a Chinese wall, some skeptics wonder whether the U.S. can really seal off a border that consists largely of four-strand barbed wire and the Rio Grande, and includes the barren deserts around Yuma, Arizona; the thick evergreen brush near McAllen, Texas; two ocean ports; and several mountain ranges. The Border Patrol insists it can do so, in part because of that very terrain. The vast majority of crossings now take place in and around urban areas. The crackdowns in San Diego and El Paso rely on enhanced ( technology, fences and manpower over short stretches of mostly...
Green (her street name) is tripping again. The 16-year-old girl took two hits of acid at 3:30 p.m., and now, two hours later, she can't stop laughing. She sits on the floor of a barren room in a Hollywood squat, giggling and staring at the flicker of a small candle. Her boyfriend, Troll, a 23-year-old from Dallas who has been homeless since he was 17, lies on the floor asleep. They met during a food fight at a local youth center. "I need a beer," she says. "Does anybody have some beer...
Join Nanni on his Vespa, motoring through Rome, savoring the barren landscape, stopping at the spot where Pasolini was murdered, singing along with an outdoor band and looking -- in his beard, dark glasses and black shirt -- like an anarchist who has joined the Ricky Ricardo Orchestra. Visit the Italian islands with Nanni and his bookish friend (Renato Carpentieri) as they see their friends utterly dominated by bratty kids. Get lost in the labyrinth of Italian medicine as Nanni consults dozens of doctors to discover the source of a skin rash, only to learn troubling truths about his body and their...
...this is a symptom of sport, not just soccer. Roger Neilson nearly led the expansion and relatively talent-barren Florida Panthers to the NHL playoffs last year by emphasizing the clutch-and-grab tactics of the neutral zone trap and banking on good goal-tending (i.e. John Vanbiesbrouck) to save them when the trap failed...
Following the war's end, it was the barren deserts of the Middle East that yielded Bechtel's biggest prize to date--oil. The company seized upon the opportunity by building much of the Arab world's modern oil-producing infrastructure. McCartney reports that even as Bechtel was working hard to establish cozy ties with Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, former employees of the company were involved behind the scenes. Several worked for the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a government agency that subsidizes American corporate ventures abroad, to facilitate financing for the enormous projects...