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...glimpse of that when we watched a family boost their 10-year-old boy over a 12-ft fence, where a slip could easily mean a broken leg, miles from the nearest doctor. Or when we stood at the rusty steel barrier between the U.S. town of Calexico and the Mexican city of Mexicali in California's Imperial Valley. Through a gap in this wall flows the New River, perhaps the most polluted waterway in North America--a foamy, green mix of industrial waste, farm runoff and untreated human sewage. This river has been found to carry the germs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

Most of your movies are very serious. Would you consider working on more comedies? -Mariana Córdova, Calexico, Calif.I would love to, but it is difficult to find something where the woman is funny without endorsing frivolous girldom. I love chick flicks, but I hate the fashion obsession and always wanting to get married at the end--that really bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Natalie Portman | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Great version of “Goin’ to Acapulco” from Rolling Thunder-alluding white-faced Jim James and Calexico...

Author: By Crimson arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CELEBRITY LISTS | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...show, you seem squeamish when an animal is slaughtered. Isn't it good for a chef to see every stage of the main ingredient? -Erasmo Zayas, Calexico, Calif.I think it's both useful and appropriate to experience the shame, guilt and discomfort of seeing what the real cost of dinner is. That said, who likes to see an animal in pain, except for Ted Nugent? I dearly love pork, but seeing a pig die is a pretty bloodcurdling experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anthony Bourdain | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...Diego that led to a 70% drop in illegal immigration there. That's why he wrote Rumsfeld personally about fencing the range and co-sponsored the Secure Fence Act, a law on President Bush's desk that requires at least two layers of reinforced fencing to be built from Calexico, Calif. to Douglas, Ariz. - right across the bottom of the Goldwater Range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illegals in the Line of Fire | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

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