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...Divorce may be a sin, but if the marriage is hell, why would you stay?" asks Jiménez's son César Borrego, a 35-year-old pilot who divorced his wife in 2006 after eight years of marriage. It was a contentious divorce - the couple have two children and César sued for shared custody - but less difficult in some ways than that of his older brother Kiko, a military flight mechanic who split up with his wife in 1992 after only three months of marriage. "Because of the law then we had to wait until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Till Divorce Do Us Part | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...Divorce may be a sin, but if the marriage is hell, why would you stay?" asks César Borrego, 35, one of Pilar's sons, who was divorced from his wife in 2006 after eight years of marriage. It was a contentious divorce - the couple have two children and César sued for shared custody - but less difficult, in some ways, than that of his older brother Kiko, who split from his wife in 1992 after three months of marriage. "Because of the law then, we had to wait until we had been married a year before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Spain Became Splitsville | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...John E. Borrego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...frozen north. Camp Kilmer, near Edison, N.J., is a decaying ghost town of fire-gutted barracks and shattered glass. Unfenced, it is a tempting playground for exploring children. While squirrels and kangaroo rats nest in the bomb craters that pock 10,000 acres of California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the area is off limits to human visitors because it contains unexploded bombs and rockets left there 30 years ago, when the Navy used the park as a test-firing range. Although much of the ordnance is buried deep beneath the desert sands, a civilian team sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Military as Litterbug | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...long string of weak, consistently unsuccessful farm unions, called a strike against several Delano grape growers, among them the giant companies Schenley and DiGiorgio. There was nothing new in that. Strikes had been called before in the Central Valley, several in the thirties, and more recently in Borrego Springs and nearby Bakersfield. But none of these previous strikes had been long-lived. Some had been violent, but all had ended with the farm worker in at least as bad shape as before...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Strikers Appeal to Old Ties With Mexico But Face Problems of Fatigue and Racism | 9/24/1966 | See Source »

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