Word: gate
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...only one thinking that way. At midday, by a gate in the chain link fence that separates Mexicali from Calexico, Calif., a border-patrol officer ushers a group of deportees back into Mexico. They're all planning return trips. Rocio Moredia sees no other option. She's from Puebla and notes, "There is no work there...
...trip. In Washington, carved into the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, are the names of 58,226 Americans who died in an unpopular war. Now, in your mind, fly to Belgium, where about the same number of names--54,896, to be exact--are written on the Menin Gate outside Ypres. But these are not the names of all who died in a whole war; they are not even the names of all who died on a single battlefield. They commemorate the Britons, together with about 13,000 Canadians and Australians, who died at Ypres between 1914 and August...
...Protected by his war record, Liang became a nuisance. He accused one county official of giving building contracts to family members, another of assigning jobs to his friends "like throwing bones to his dogs." He hung posters denouncing corruption on the town hall gate. Police warned him to stop; co-workers voted him onto Lanshan's 180-member People's Congress in early...
...sent by the police.) According to Li, one local cop has warned that if she continues her activism, "he'll tear out my eyes. I told him when I'm dead, my family will carry on." Even as she spoke in her home with TIME, police dropped by her gate to ensure she hadn't gone to Beijing to protest at last week's National People's Congress...
...know the advice “go away and get some perspective” seems a little glib—and perhaps obvious—but sometimes we forget that life extends beyond Johnston Gate and the Leverett Towers...