Word: border
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...countries and cultures it bisects. That became ever more apparent during the four weeks I spent following the river westward and, then, when it turns north to New Mexico, keeping as close as possible to the 258 white obelisks that mark the remaining 750 miles of the border from El Paso to the California coast. There is fusion, especially where the two countries meet. But the region is also a fault line where the tectonic plates of nationalism grind away despite such tokens of integration as Big Macs in Mexico City and tortillas in Tucson. There certainly is no identifiable...
...loitering along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, the waves emerge silently, advancing slowly and uniformly, like long thin lines of infantry, on the mouth of the Rio Grande. The river, exhausted after its tortuous odyssey along more than half of the 2,076-mile U.S.-Mexican border, offers little resistance to this serried assault. Its tired brown water backs up and bivouacs in a lagoon near a white lighthouse, and from there it slips, as stealthily as a camp deserter, into the Gulf...
Frye says that he has also been involved with teaching Near Eastern religions like Manichaeanism and Zoroasterianism. Currently he teaches a course in Sogdian language, the language of people residing near the Soviet-Chinese border, the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, and middle Persian (300 to 700 A.D.) language...
American Ideas introduces you to Sister Pearl Ceasar, a Roman Catholic nun in El Paso's Rio Grande Valley. Using the precepts developed by the late Saul Alinsky, a Chicago social activist, she is leading a campaign to bring drinking water to impoverished families along the Mexican border...
...chief organizers transferred to the Midwest, and more are to follow. He has also given up much of the Cotton South. From a meeting of some of his Dixie managers, word seeped out that Democratic hopes were reduced to what they grandly called the "Big Five" Southern and border states -- Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina. But they add up to just 51 electoral votes, and Dukakis at the moment can count on none of them...