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...left Tijuana at 6 p.m. and reached his sister in Los Angeles by 8 a.m. the next day. But after the border crackdowns of the mid-1990s, he has had to seek out new routes. In 1999 he flew from Mexico City to Montreal and went to a random downtown McDonald's, where he thought he could bump into Hispanics. If he found some Mexicans there, he reasoned, one of them would know how to sneak across the nearby U.S. border. Before long, he got a ride to a secluded place in the woods just north of the border...
...sending nearly all his earnings back to Tuxpan. In January 1977, when he was 26, Coria had a chance encounter that would change his life--and that of Tuxpan--forever. He ran into a vacationing restaurateur from Bridgehampton who was asking directions to the Palace of Fine Arts in downtown Mexico City. Coria showed him the way, the men struck up a halting conversation in Spanish, and within two years, Coria had accepted the American's invitation to work as a gardener in the Hamptons. A tourist visa to the U.S. came included with his plane ticket, both easily arranged...
...same vehicles kept popping up in various attacks. "Of 23 Katrina-related homicides in Houston, we linked nine to just two groups from New Orleans-the 3'n'G and the Dooney boys," Harris told TIME. The Dooney boys, who come from the Magnolia Projects just west of downtown New Orleans, home of the slain rapper Soulja Slim, are old rivals of the 3'n'G (named for the intersection of Third and Galvez). "This wasn't a Houston thing," says Harris. "You see a spike in homicides in New Orleans in July and August, then the hurricane comes...
...million for a one-bedroom- at the peak. Buyers, mostly interested in flipping them for quick profits, eagerly anted up five-figure down payments, while developers planned more than 70 luxury towers holding a total of about 43,000 units on or near the Strip and downtown. But the intense competition for the city's limited supply of contractors sent construction costs skyrocketing 30% last year, just as lending policies tightened, interest rates climbed and sales started to slow...
...course I'm going to go to the party," says Andre Johnson, who generally gets by passing out handbills in the once bustling neighborhood on the edge of downtown Detroit. "They've got free food and a big-screen TV. To hell with going downtown and trying to hustle. We have to hustle every day." And hustling around Ford Field will be difficult over the next week. The police have already started warning the homeless to stay away from the festivities, says Mike "Chicago" Jones, another homeless man. "If you don't have a valid ID on you, they...