Word: metros
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Much of the border is still desperately poor. McAllen, Texas, at the heart of the fourth fastest-growing metro area in the U.S., is America's poorest city, the Commerce Department announced last month, with an average per capita income of $13,339 a year. But people on both sides are helping one another do the deals, cut the corners, take a region that was forever left behind and turn it into the New Frontier. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) prospectors saw in the opening of the border a chance to make a killing by taking factories that...
...deep team, and I give credit to everyone who sailed,” Johnson said. “We were a little disappointed, and we’re still getting a few kinks out, but by no means is a lack of practice an excuse.” METRO SERIES 1 AT BC On Saturday, freshmen skipper Roberta Steele and crew Christina Cordeiro competed in a seven-team field along with freshman skipper Andrew Flynn and junior crew Ashley Nathanson at Boston College. Steele and Cordeiro’s total of 28 points earned fifth place overall, while Flynn...
...something I’ll never forget.” The work was fully-funded by the Harvard Coop and organized by the Phillips Brooks House Association. Moss Point, Miss. Mayor Xavier Bishop, executive director of Ashe Cultural Arts Center Carole Bebelle from New Orleans, and Executive Director of Metro Jackson, Miss., Habitat for Humanity Cindy Griffin thanked the students yesterday. Bishop, who had only been in office for a month when his city faced the Hurricane, said the work of the students was invaluable. “The South is a very prideful region of the country...
...were going to the Vatican, and we were going during rush hour in the metro, and someone grabbed my bag,” she said...
...EXTRADITED. RACHID RAMDA, 35, Algerian terrorist suspect; from Britain to France. Allegedly a member of Algeria's outlawed Armed Islamic Group, Ramda was arrested in London in November 1995 after fleeing French charges related to that year's bombing of the Paris Metro, in which eight people died...