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...Anheuser-Busch is the legacy of an enterprising German immigrant named Adolphus Busch, who married the daughter of a middling brewer, Eberhard Anheuser, in 1861. Brewing the blond and foamy lager of his native land and seizing on the science of pasteurization, Busch "brought bottled beer to the masses," in the words of biographers Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey. At Busch's death in 1913, A-B was the biggest beermaker in the country - a distinction the company never relinquished, despite a near death experience during Prohibition...
...coming upon sections they've never seen before. The work is less advanced in New Mexico and stalled in Texas, where fierce local opposition has delayed construction--a coalition of border-town mayors and chambers of commerce has sued DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, alleging he is trying to seize land at inadequate prices. But Texas already has more than 1,200 miles (almost 2,000 km) of well-marked border in the form of the Rio Grande...
Dart was busy all day. So busy, in fact, that it's hard to say honestly who controls the central-Arizona frontier. It's a no-man's-land where the law is only as real as the nearest cop. Dart took us to an ancient volcanic dome north of the border. It was nearly 40 miles (64 km) inside the U.S., but it was effectively the property of Mexican smugglers, who station spotters atop the hill. From there, a man with binoculars can monitor the movements of every CBP agent in the desert below. We climbed up and found...
...Morocco and Turkey, among other countries. But Syria is a particularly good place to pick up rugs and has been ever since Silk Road travelers from the great weaving cultures of Central Asia passed through this final arc of the Fertile Crescent on their way to the Holy Land...
...glance, it's hard to see how anyone could profit from a country where unemployment is at 80% and inflation is 165,000%. But the regime works the chaos to its advantage. The seizure of white-owned farms since 2000, endorsed by Mugabe as a long-overdue redistribution of land to Zimbabwe's black majority, has benefited the ZANU-PF élite. A senior army officer warns that the generals will use any means necessary to hold onto their riches. Should the June 27 vote go against them, he says, they will disregard it: "There will be a coup...