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...show that the border has been highly militarized. Hundreds of people have died trying to cross into the United States, killed by border patrol officers and the extremely dangerous terrain and weather characteristic of the borderlands. Huntington has written that immigrants “come across a 2,000-mile border historically marked simply by a line in the ground and a shallow river”; such absurd statements prove only that Huntington has probably never even seen the border, much less the bodies of the immigrants who have died in attempts to reach the U.S. On the subject...
...been renovated so far. Here’s a hint for all you professional whiners out there: get over it. Play the cards you’re dealt. Instead of attacking Adams for trying to preserve some semblance of House community, first-years should walk the quarter of a mile to Annenberg or explore what else the Harvard community has to offer in other Houses—you might even be lotteried into one of them at the end of this month. And upset upperclassmen should concentrate their vitriol on making their own House experiences better, rather than hindering Adams?...
There is little substance in Hidalgo. Ostensibly, the film is based on the true story of Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a long-distance horse-racer who is invited to partake in “the Ocean of Fire,” a 3,000-mile horse race across the Arabian Peninsula. Hopkins’ horse, Hidalgo, is a mustang, a wild mixed-breed horse that was introduced to the Americas with the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. In the world of horse racing these mixed-breeds are considered, according to the movie, unworthy to share the road...
...little over an hour from Boston, across from an elementary school in the heart of Fairhaven, Mass., sits the Atlas Tack Company. More than 7,000 people live within a mile of Atlas. More than 15,000 live within three miles. And for more than twenty years, Atlas released cyanide, arsenic and other toxic solvents into an adjacent marsh. Then in 1990, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials finally put the site on their National Priorities List for cleanup under the Superfund program—a landmark initiative from 1980 that used to force polluters to pay for the damage they...
...Campbell says BNSF's network center astonishes visitors with its ballroom size and sophisticated monitors. "While freight cars and locomotives haven't changed in two decades," he says, "most people have not seen an ops center like ours, not even at NASA in Houston." Automated readers, located every 30 miles along the 33,000-mile system, scan the bar codes of passing cars and locomotives--basically the rail version of a toll tag--and wirelessly transmit that information. Customers can log on to the company's website to track shipments in near real time or get the data sent...