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Viewed from a Black Hawk helicopter 1,000 feet up, there's no sign of the Mexican border in this southwest corner of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. No line in the sand. No fence. Not even a road. Yet it's clear we are flying over a major international thoroughfare. Hundreds of shiny footpaths and tire tracks weave through the desert below, where the temperature on the ground routinely reaches 115? F in the summer. You need to drink a gallon of water an hour to survive in heat like that, and the illegal aliens and smugglers who pounded these...
...Black Hawk over the summer, Aguilar had brought his boss, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Ralph Basham, to see this area for himself. Faced with the vast terrain, Basham seemed convinced a fence was not the answer. But another thought dawned as he looked down on shimmering black lava fields below. "If they're willing to go through 80 miles of desert in this heat, you can't do much to stop them...
...Rarely do journalists fail to play up Abe's blue-blood heritage and the fears he stirs up among liberals. TIME's story was no exception. Will Abe act like a hawk or a dove toward Japan's neighbors? The media like to stereotype politicians, especially those with mystique. But let's remember U.S. President Richard Nixon. He began his career as a crusading anticommunist but turned out to be the statesman who reached out to the Soviet Union and Red China. My concern is not whether Abe will patch things up with Japan's neighbors but how he will...
...Maybe someone has finally figured out a way to stop Clifton Dawson: cue the Lehigh defense.But the way to slow down the rest of the No. 21 Harvard football team? That still went unanswered on Saturday, as the Crimson (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) squeaked by the Mountain Hawks (1-3, 0-0 Patriot) by a 35-33 score in front of 10,680 fans at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pa.Although Dawson was held relatively in check—he gained just 94 yards on 31 carries—he did move into a tie for third place...
...National Guard aviation mechanic, Damon was inflating a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter in Balad when the tire's metal rim exploded in October 2003. He lost his arms--and his partner Paul Bueche. Two months later, Damon married his longtime girlfriend Jenn, exchanging roses in place of rings. Haunted with guilt over Bueche's death, Damon, 34, began to find peace after meeting Bueche's parents, who absolved him of blame...