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Consumers: The Party's Over Oxford Street, London's busiest retail area, is still teeming with shoppers hunting for end-of-season sales bargains, but the store owners are anything but happy. Marks & Spencer's stock dropped 25% in a day on July 2 after the firm issued a profit warning. At privately owned rival John Lewis, sales in the summer-clearance week at the end of June fell more than 8% compared with the same week in 2007. Patrick Lewis, who heads the company's retail operations, said the market "has certainly got an edge tougher...
Something's Working Two years ago, Yuma Sector was the busiest jurisdiction in the entire border patrol. This 118-mile (190 km) stretch of border in western Arizona and eastern California was a well-known gap through which people and drugs flowed north while guns and money went south. The harsh desert on either side was crosshatched with smugglers' roads, trampled by the footprints of thousands of "walkers," some of whom dropped dead from thirst. In the city of San Luis, Ariz., so-called banzai runs were a near nightly occurrence. Scores of people would gather on the Mexican side...
...months of patrolling Tucson Sector as part of Operation Jump Start--which deployed National Guard troops to bolster border security--Dart has, by his rough estimate, helped stop "thousands of tons of marijuana, tons of methamphetamine" and countless human beings. It's no coincidence that the CBP's new busiest sector, in both human and drug traffic, is the one next door to Yuma. Crossings didn't stop--they moved...
...buildings are bought and knocked down. Tucson Sector also has more paved roads through its desert, making it easier for walkers to reach pickup points. And there are more hamlets along its border. Smuggling is a major part of the local economy in Arizona towns like Naco, where the busiest saloon is decorated with a burlap marijuana sack and a sign for Coyote brand beer. (People who don't know that coyote is slang for a smuggler of illegal aliens won't get the joke, but then those folks have no reason to visit Naco in the first place...
...Sunday, Metzler traveled by boat down a river that was formerly one of the area's busiest streets to find waist-high water in his establishment, Coral Lanes. "That's a disaster, a goner," he says of the 56-year-old bowling alley on First Avenue that he's owned since just after Iowa's devastating 1993 flood. (There is debate about whether Iowa's 2008 flood has been even more devastating...