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...harder for illegal immigrants to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, the flow has shifted to this point of less resistance. The Dominican Republic's seven busy international airports and minimal visa restrictions make it difficult to monitor the comings and goings of foreigners. And once refugees weather the 110-mile boat trip from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, they can usually slip onto a U.S.-bound flight without a document check...
...challenge to the European Union quota. That quota was 3,400 tons per year for EU boats. In the first two weeks of 1995, EU boats caught over 7,000 tons of turbot. Predictably, the European Union ignored Canada and continued to fish just outside of the 200-mile limit. The EU threatened to send warships to protect its interests. Diplomatic negotations were halted. And meanwhile, turbot go the way of other species: cod populations have been reduced by 99 per cent, pilchard and polar cod by 94 per cent, and haddock by more than 80 per cent since...
...evil showdowns. In the first episode of Sliders, the young physicist and his friends find themselves in a communist California, where they join an underground movement to oust the Soviets, who in this world have won the cold war. Sliders, filled with dialogue like "The guy is Three Mile Island--it's going to take him years to cool down," is a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for teenagers who actually read newspapers. The Outer Limits also dampens its chills with banal dialogue. In one episode, a voluptuous robot falls in love with a paralyzed scientist. His response to her kiss...
Sunny weather did little to assuage fears of further flooding today in waterlogged California. Following a week of killer rainstorms, clear skies brought the threat of fresh flooding as mountain snow started to melt into overflowing reservoirs, lakes and streams. Some 100 miles north of San Francisco, hundreds of people fled their homes as the 30-mile-long Clearlake overflowed. During the past two weeks, flooding throughout the state has forced 7,000 Californians to evacuate their homes and has left at least 14 dead. Gov. Pete Wilson expanded his request for federal disaster funding today, seeking to make...
...such, we at Dartboard are miffed that the Square hasn't become the target of more crime than just one armed robbery every few years. We're really bringing down the national crime-to-bank-per-square-mile ratio. But we think we know why more people don't come to the Square with robbery on their minds...