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...More than 40,000 alumni, or 17.5 percent of those who live in the United States, resided in a 75-mile radius around Boston...
...wall echoing the Cold War. And south of the Rio Grande, Governor Humberto Moreira of the Mexican state of Coahuila has dubbed it a "wall of hate." But no matter what the controversial barrier being constructed between Mexico and the U.S. is called, the $1.6 billion, 670-mile-long first phase is close to completion as President Barack Obama enters office...
...home page of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website shows the daily progress of the border-fence construction - green for completed, yellow for under construction and red for planned. There is a line of green and yellow for the 693-mile border between Mexico and the states of California, Arizona and New Mexico. The colors turn to red on the far western and eastern edges of the 1,241-mile Mexico-Texas border. In between, there are just small patches of red, since only 110 miles of Texas border fence are planned in the initial stage...
Prominent Russian human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was killed Monday afternoon, shot point-blank in the head, police say, as he walked to his car just a mile from the Kremlin. Markelov, 34, had just given a press conference in which he had announced he would continue to fight the early parole of Yury Budanov, a decorated tank commander who had admitted to and was convicted of the strangling death of an 18-year-old Chechen woman in 2000. Anastasia Baburova, 25, a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper covering the Budanov case, was also shot as she walked...
...Baltimore on the Saturday before Inauguration for community groups, withworkshops on everything from the civil rights of protesters to the use of stock proxies in engaging corporations. Political events like this will take place alongside apolitical blood, food and book drives. (There are 81 events listed within a 10-mile radius of Baltimore as of Thursday...