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...Barrio Chino, 253 Broome Street (212-228-6710). One of the best margaritas in the city and a great scene at night...
...problems in our downtown are gone,'' boasted Mayor Larry Francis. ''The majority of El Pasoans are stating that this should have been done long ago.'' Motorists tied green ribbons to their aerials and flashed their headlights at patrol vans. Observed Fred Morales, an activist in the crime-ridden Chihuahuita barrio: ''The stabbings and shootings are down to zero. This is the best present we could ever get.'' No one was more pleased than the Border Patrol, whose new sector chief, Silvestre Reyes, devised the blockade and wangled $300,000 out of INS headquarters to provide overtime pay for 400 agents...
...When I walk up the streets of my barrio and there are no police in sight, I pray to Ismaelito or to Petroleo Crudo," says Escalona. "They were malandros, so maybe they can talk to these malandros and tell them not to harm me." She adds: "I also believe in the Virgin Mary and my other saints - it's just that these saints understand the street better...
...will test subtitled versions of others like Cribs, a peek inside the private lives of celebrities--tricky here since young people revere their stars and don't really want to look behind their curtains. But the producers green-lighted local versions of the extreme-sports and street-skills show Barrio 19--one early episode features "dune-bashing," driving ATVs fast through the desert--and the Candid Camera-style Boiling Points...
...result, the poor have no choice but to accept insecurity and instability as a way of life. But when governments grant people legal means to control their assets, they empower them to invest and plan for the future. In San Francisco Solano, a barrio outside Buenos Aires, Argentine economists studied the experience of two communities--one that received title to its land in the early 1980s, another that did not. The group of neighbors that had received legal title to its land surpassed the group without title in a range of social indicators, including quality of house construction, education levels...