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...Percentage of illegal entrants from Cuba who arrive in the U.S. by land through Mexico or Canada instead of making the 90-mile trip by boat; 9,296 Cubans entered by land this fiscal year through July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 13, 2007 | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...help restore Louisiana's vanishing coastal marshes and cypress swamps, which provide natural protection for New Orleans. (It's also true that Vitter had pushed to help timber firms to log those cypress swamps.) But as I explain in TIMR, the bill's main Louisiana project - a 72-mile levee for some bayou towns - is a giant step in the wrong direction, accelerating the wetlands losses that left New Orleans exposed to Katrina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting the Stage for More Katrinas | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Despite the name of the club he leads, Lawaetz will be no more experienced than anyone else when the gun goes off marking the beginning of tomorrow’s mile-long race, scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. in the basin of the river...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Charles Gets Green Light | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...convinced sluggers Mo Vaughn and John Valentin had enough magic to win every night. As for Fenway Park itself, what I remember is not even part of the ballpark, but rather the regularly contracting triangle of the CITGO sign that hovered above the green wall only half a mile away...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin | Title: Keeping the (Fenway) Faith | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...While Prapa herds her children into class, Principal Mayakoh hunches over a two-way radio issued by the local education department. Before long, it crackles to life: a Buddhist official has been wounded by four gunmen about a mile away. Mayakoh is a short, gray-haired man who looks worried even when he's smiling. But he says he's hopeful. Ban Bukoh's people make a modest living tapping rubber and growing bananas, rice and coconuts, yet parents have already raised 5,400 baht (about $160)-the equivalent of a monthly salary in these parts-to build a temporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endless Woe | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

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