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...them legal status would free Mexican migrants from the exploitation of the low-wage off-the-books economy, and therefore expand the earning potential of an expatriate community that will send home an estimated $9 billion this year alone. It would also allow these workers to travel back and forth, which is far too dangerous right now for most of those lucky enough to have eluded the Border Patrol once - and that cements the ties to home, and probably the southward flow of household capital, too. Politically, the current immigration regime is perceived by Mexicans as brutal, inhumane...
...recognized this. It makes economic sense for Mexico to try to improve the working conditions and legalize the residential status of Mexicans in the States. It would put them in a better position to send money home, and also to maintain their ties to Mexico by traveling back and forth, as opposed to being stuck in the U.S. because it's too dangerous to cross the border again...
...numbing ace, the women have a powerful game that still allows for some volley. CBS commentator and former player Mary Carillo says of a recent tournament, "They were playing a brand of tennis that I was totally unfamiliar with. The pounding was so concussive and the running back and forth so athletic--everything about that match was so much more ballistic than I could have scared up. I played another sport...
...scene was like a medieval coronation, or a take from a Cecil B. DeMille movie. As the red-clad multitude waved banners decorated with the heraldic device of a prancing horse, a tumult of braying horns hailed the king as he sallied forth. But instead of a bloodstained battlefield the crowd filled a different kind of combat zone, the track at the Hungaroring near Budapest, to celebrate the latest victory of Michael Schumacher, monarch of every race circuit he surveys. The homage was fitting for the driver who has dominated Formula One racing for the past seven years. Despite occasional...
...seem destined to be clueless about our teenagers. Here we are, entwined in this most intimate relationship with our very own children, yet teens seem to live in another world--one with nonstop Internet access and encyclopedic knowledge of song lyrics. When teens start dating, they lurch back and forth between their private agonies and joys, and mask their problems and heartaches with arguments about learner's permits and lip gloss. We parents wait up nights and cross our fingers, hoping our kids will make it to adulthood unscathed. Unfortunately, many of them...