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...January 1992, after his release, the INS sent him back to Mexico by way of Nogales, Ariz. Six months later, he was back again, spotted by border-patrol officers as he attempted to come back into the U.S. near El Paso, Texas. When agents tried to stop him, he ran into rush-hour traffic on Interstate 10, "narrowly avoiding collision with several cars," according to immigration records. He subsequently was arrested, that time under the name Mateo Jimenez, and ordered to be returned to Mexico. It didn't stick. In November he was arrested by Portland, Ore., police for possession...
...maintain that immigrants should enjoy the same rights "as any other Spaniard." Perhaps because Spain prides itself on a broadly based tolerance, there is a degree of unwillingness to identify racism, when it occurs, for what it is. Juan José Paradinas, who writes about soccer for daily newspaper El País, says insults at soccer games - even when targeted at a player's race - are merely examples of aggressive gamesmanship, intended to distract opponents. "It's like calling someone fat or ugly, a dwarf or an idiot," he says. "People use whatever physical characteristic they can to provoke...
Global warming is tipping other regions of the world into drought in different ways. Higher temperatures bake moisture out of soil faster, causing dry regions that live at the margins to cross the line into full-blown crisis. Meanwhile, El Niño events--the warm pooling of Pacific waters that periodically drives worldwide climate patterns and has been occurring more frequently in global-warming years--further inhibit precipitation in dry areas of Africa and East Asia. According to a recent study by NCAR, the percentage of Earth's surface suffering drought has more than doubled since the 1970s...
...worth of data on cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh and tying them to detailed temperature reports of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. True, Bangladesh isn't anywhere near the Pacific, but the researchers are using the temperature data as an indication of a larger weather pattern called the El Niño/ Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. What they have found is that the severity of an epidemic is linked to water temperature--but only in years of higher-than-normal temperatures on the ocean's surface. More alarming: as the ENSO pattern has become more pronounced since the 1970s...
...wants a clan state like El Salvador,†Chomsky said. “You can call it democracy if you want. People are brainwashed enough to agree...