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...Paso. In Nogales, Arizona, arrests are up 51% from last year. "We're seeing a lot more folks from Baja California, who normally would cross through San Diego, and people from Chihuahua, who would usually cross in El Paso," says Nogales border agent F. D. Gunter. To cope with this surge, the Tucson sector is getting 100 new agents, along with night-vision scopes, helicopters, computers and other equipment...
Those scenarios are timid next to the real thing: the power one person has over another -- the puppy love, say, that turns rabid as two souls merge in a toxic rapture. For most kids this is just a part of growing up; somehow they learn to cope with the glandular and emotional convulsions that accompany the transformation from child to teenager. Yet the threat of surrender is always there. The teenage girls in the wonderfully unsettling movie Heavenly Creatures create their own fantasy world out of youthful obsession, and then it spins out of their control. The result is murder...
Other new firms are helping to repair crack-ups in the financial industry. Tim Scala and Ken Jingozian left banking jobs last year to become self-styled derivatives investigators -- experts who advise clients on how to cope with the risks of those securities. Their timing was uncanny: soon after Scala and Jingozian created their New York City-based firm, Treasury Resources Consulting and Investigations, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and sent the value of many derivatives plunging. Their phone has hardly stopped ringing. Says Jingozian: "The entire derivatives market has taken a quantum leap in complexity and sophistication...
...asserting that we as "Harvard students" should be intelligent enough to recognize and deal with our problems, he implies that we should be able to cope on our own, or at least know how and when to ask for help...
...doesn't matter how many women are elected to Congress today or in the future. As long as there are no society-wide provisions to help people cope with the increasing complexities of modern life, then the tenuous scaffolding that many of us have erected to support our individual enterprises will collapse...