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...Paso and Juarez offer a test to all the high-minded globalists who think that if you fix the economy, the other solutions will fall into line. On the one hand, manufacturers from Ireland to Japan are streaming into town. Some 400 maquiladoras, or assembly plants, have all but eliminated unemployment in Juarez and have sown the seeds of a stable middle class, "not Mexicans with sombreros," says Miguel Angel Giron, 26, an accountant at an auto-parts factory. But all the problems that booming trade creates are concentrated here as well; the potable water in the cities' common aquifer...
...summer circuit is nothing new. They tour, he says, because "they're the acts that can still sell vast amounts of tickets." Of course some relative newcomers such as Robbie Williams may be able to pull off stadium shows in certain markets; he will tour Britain and Ireland in July and August (including stops at Glasgow and Cardiff). But it's mostly the older bands - the likes of AC/DC and the Eagles, which are both touring Europe - that have achieved the critical fan mass to fill the big venues consistently...
...second year medical student in Ireland and a former associate sports editor of The Crimson, Christopher W. McEvoy `99 died Dec. 16 of an accidental drug overdose...
...This message comes from a well-traveled man who has seen his home country of Ireland torn apart by perpetual warfare, has spent time in Ethiopia volunteering to aid starving children, and has recently lived through the suicide of his good friend, INXS singer Michael Hutchence. When Bono writes about the pain and suffering in the world, he is not a distant artist, speculating at what is out there. He has been in the trenches, and has seen the horror firsthand...
...Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland...