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...About 11 million Americans will travel abroad this summer--80% of them as tourists. And such hordes can quickly ruin the very places they love. That's why environmental groups were so quick to criticize plans recently announced by the Mexican government to develop Baja California's unspoiled eastern coast. Those who remember a charming locale before the tourists arrived understandably sigh for the past. I have just returned from a week visiting friends in Crete, where a mountain gorge that I first hiked in solitary silence in 1973 now sees 260,000 visitors a year...
Though the Arellanos are the heirs to that world, they are also a ghastly mutation. Their uncle Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, an ex-cop from the violent Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa, was the first Mexican drug capo to link up with Colombia's cocaine cartels in the 1980s. He and other druglords shared the Tijuana corridor, but after they savagely murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, in league with senior police and political figures, Mexican authorities put them in jail. Into Tijuana roared the seven Arellano brothers, including the handsome Benjamin, their CEO; chubby Ramon, the enforcer; finance...
Canada also serves as East Coast regional coordinator of the Black Community Crusade for Children, a program run by the Children's Defense Fund. He has received a Heinz Foundation award, a Hero Award from the Robin Hood Foundation and a Parents Magazine Award for his work in child advocacy. He is the author of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America and Reaching Up for Manhood...
...knew that we had two of the best goalies in the East Coast," Bleisath said. "We didn't feel pressure to score every time down the pool, so our game became much more relaxed and smarter...
...they will be pushed by an intriguing incoming freshman class. Courtney Bergman is the top-ranked American female tennis player heading to college this autumn. Highly recruited by superpower Stanford, Bergman chose to stay on the east coast, bolstering Harvard's lineup for next season. She will be joined by Susanna Lingman, ranked in the top 35 nationally and sought after by UCLA, Ashley Hyotte from Sudbury, Massachusetts, and Helis Zulijani from Croatia, who was once ranked No. 2 in the country's 16-and-under age group...