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This anger against the growing flood of 1 million illegal immigrants a year is rising fast among independent-spirited, gun-toting residents in the borderlands of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Over the past three years, the number of illegals streaming across the border has remained constant. They come from Mexico, where a third of the people live on $2 a day or less, and from other countries where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line...
...charge for it. "Generating content is a valuable service," says Eric Scheirer, a media and Internet analyst at Forrester Research. "And as long as it is, there will always be ways to monetize it." What's more, anonymous systems like Freenet are inherently vulnerable. "The record companies could flood Freenet with a million copies of static," Scheirer suggests, "and title them The New Britney Spears Song...
...enjoying the fruits of well-invested savings and well-funded pension plans. That's what the management is counting on at the headquarters of the Del Webb Corp. in Phoenix, Ariz., developers of the Sun City chain of retirement communities. Del Webb executives are quivering in anticipation of a flood of boomers pouring into the retirement-home market. LeRoy Hanneman, 54, Del Webb's CEO, stands on a hill from which he can see his company's future as vividly as he can mix metaphors: "The explosion of baby boomers is like a freight train bearing down...
...perils spring from the same neurochemical reaction that causes its pleasures. After MDMA enters the bloodstream, it aims with laser-like precision at the brain cells that release serotonin, a chemical that is the body's primary regulator of mood. MDMA causes these cells to disgorge their contents and flood the brain with serotonin...
Until that time, police drug busters had been focused on the flood of pot and cocaine coming across the border from Mexico. But as the ecstasy scene broke into the mainstream, the cops started to take action. Phoenix police sent in a young female undercover detective to start making buys. "We had to tell her to stop, she was getting so much," said a law-enforcement source. They were also surprised by how widespread the use of the drug was among young suburban kids. "Only 1,000 ecstasy pills were seized in all of Arizona the previous year...