Word: mexico
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...MEXICO'S DRUG CHALLENGE...
Narcotics may come through Mexico, but the destination point is in the U.S. [WORLD, March 10]. Authorities in Mexico may look the other way when, loaded with drugs, a plane takes off or a truck passes through, but what happens when it crosses the border into the U.S.? And when it is unloaded? Is it visible only south of the border? Every blind officer in Mexico must have a matching blind official in the U.S. EDGAR BECERRA Mexico City...
...qualities that make Stone?s novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that ?this drink...
...qualities that make Stone?s novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that ?this drink...
...July 23, 1995, Alan Hale, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy and makes his living running a research and educational company, was scanning the skies above his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He was waiting for an already discovered comet to rise over his house when he trained his telescope on M70, a well-known cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. "As soon as I looked," he says, "I saw a fuzzy object nearby. It was strange, because I'd looked at M70 a couple of weeks earlier and the object hadn't been there...