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...world, Western Union means money. Having converted its wire traffic from text messages to cash, Western Union increasingly serves as a rough-and-ready bank for millions of migrant workers who send part of their pay to loved ones back home, whether from an Arizona broccoli field to a Mexican village or from a Saudi oil field to Bombay. As the pace of global migration quickens, so does the business of Western Union, which this year will add 20,000 cash-dispensing outlets to the 159,000 it operates in 195 countries and territories--nearly four times as many locations...
...down again. Such moves require the support of three-fourths of voting members rather than a simple majority. "It's a very high hoop to have to jump through," says Margi Prideaux, Australian director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. But the breakthrough came in the bold new Mexican-led Berlin Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ex-ambassador to the U.K., had mobilized support from "like- minded" countries - and signing up southern hemisphere nations...
...northwest of Douglas. But when six family practitioners decided they couldn't afford the soaring malpractice premiums required for them to keep delivering babies, the hospital was forced to close its delivery room. Suddenly rural Cochise County, a 6,000-sq.-mi. expanse of mountains and desert along the Mexican border, had but one delivery room left for its 118,000 residents. It is in Sierra Vista, 50 miles northwest of Valdez's home. Which means that a week before her Aug. 4 due date, Valdez will pack her bags and camp out at the home of family friends near...
Bush talked more about the poor in 2000 than any major presidential candidate I'd seen in years. There were times he left his country-club audiences befuddled by his fervent tributes to reading labs in poor schools and to the aspirations of Mexican immigrants. After he was elected President, Bush surrounded himself with excellent people who cared about the poor--people like John DiIulio and David Kuo, who ran the faith-based program office; the speechwriter Mike Gerson and his then deputy, Pete Wehner. (Caveat lector: several of them are close friends of mine.) I figured this...
...Hooters Girls. Naked-Air, a charter carrier organized by a nudist travel service in Houston, won't reveal much at all about itself--except that passengers really are allowed to disrobe once the FASTEN SEATBELT sign goes off. It has made one flight so far, from Miami to the Mexican resort city of Cancun. For passengers venturing back into the air, there has never been a better time to explore the possibilities...