Word: mexico
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...Hawaii-Hilo 81-47; Beat St. Louis 69-60 17. Indiana 6-1 Beat Utah 52-49; Lost to Syracuse 76-63 18. Utah 3-2 Lost to Indiana 52-49; Beat Michigan 71-54 19. Syracuse 5-0 Beat Michigan 58-46; Beat Indiana 76-63 20. New Mexico 4-0 Beat Cornell 88-75; Beat Northwestern 93-61 21. Arkansas 5-1 Beat Northeast Louisiana 92-70 22. Clemson 5-1 Beat Charminade 72-60; Beat Kansas St. 79-45 23. St. John's 3-2 Lost to Stanford 55-53; Lost to Purdue 70-69 24. Miami...
What killed the dinosaurs? Scientists have been debating that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
Seaboard's solution: recruit Hispanic laborers from other areas of the U.S. as well as from Mexico and Central American countries like Guatemala. Soon the recently arrived immigrants began to stream into Albert Lea--with no money and no place to stay. It was a practice Seaboard would repeat in other towns, in other states...
...slaughterhouse, one of the world's largest, will eventually kill an average of eight hogs a minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year--more than 4 million annually. So Seaboard repeated the Albert Lea hiring process--it attracted immigrant workers, some Laotian and Vietnamese, but most from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and other Central and South American countries. Some turned out to be illegal immigrants...
...capital flight out of Brazil and its currency, the real, should stop -- and that can ensure a recovery in and of itself. Adding to the warm fuzzies is this happy parallel: The U.S. is chipping in $5 billion on its own, the largest such committment since the bailout of Mexico in 1995. And that, not coincidentally, was the last time an IMF rescue actually succeeded...