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Juarez, once a dusty border mountain pass, is now Mexico's fourth largest city, with a population of 1.3 million and 50,000 more arriving each year. Huge clusters of tiny workers' houses rise out of the sand and stretch in every direction. "It's instant urbanization," says Nestor Valencia, who directed El Paso's city planning for 11 years. "One year it's a desert. The next it's a city...
...will be in Terre Haute, their tape recorders and cameras trained on the expected throng of demonstrators. Jane Clayson will be there; Katie Couric and Charles Gibson will be in Oklahoma City, along with a contingent of reporters set to talk with victims' family members. We will know the instant McVeigh's death is declared. And already, we are seeing and hearing his crime and victims and their life stories recapitulated, his final acts catalogued, the mechanics of his end detailed (an MSNBC 3-D graphic took viewers on a God's-eye tour of the death chamber, complete with...
Gone, too, is the easy crutch of achievement in evaluating these choices. Everyone here has succeeded at something and failed at something, so we lack the instant validation of being First Place Everything, or the equally clear feedback of abject failure...
Larkworthy, two players whose injury-riddled careers had limited their contributions in years past. Kowal usually started in a two-point-guard lineup alongside Monti. Larkworthy, used as a defensive stalwart for the instant energy she brings, was one of the first off the bench to play a wing spot...
...imagined I had looked inside his fortress for an instant. I decided the Hermit was a sly old dog, and I was touched. Then I accused myself of having a small-town busybody's mind that makes up cheap unfounded stories that cause trouble...