Word: paso
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...same time that Louisiana factories are laying off workers because of gas prices, the U.S. is shipping gas to Mexico to generate electricity there. While the volume is still comparatively small, exports nonetheless have swelled 674% over the past seven years, to 263 billion cu. ft. last year. El Paso Energy, for one, pipes gas directly to the new Samalayuca II power plant, about 25 miles south of Ciudad Juarez. It serves 1 million people and some 300 factories south of the border...
Every morning since Shoshana Johnson went off to war nearly two months ago, her father has woken up and turned on the TV in their home in El Paso, Texas, hunting for cartoons for his granddaughter Janelle, 2. "We go through a kind of ritual. We turn on the TV and that keeps her absolutely quiet while I get her milk," says Claude Johnson, with a sparkle in his eye. "So I got up last Sunday to turn on the TV, searching for cartoons, and I saw on Telemundo that Iraq had prisoners of war." The sparkle disappears...
Reconstructing the attack has not been easy. Even the survivors are confused. Initial reports from the battlefield said the 507th had taken a wrong turn while passing near the town of Nasiriyah, but U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes, whose El Paso district encompasses Fort Bliss, says he was told by a senior officer that the convoy was ambushed on a bridge and had not taken a wrong turn. The lightly armed unit didn't have a chance. It had no combat escort, he says. If that's true, the fault for the convoy's vulnerability would lie not with its leader...
Shana Johnson joined the army because she wanted to be a cook. She left the University of Texas at El Paso and enlisted four years ago so she could get professional training. Her father remembers the meals his daughter likes to make at home--jerk chicken and curry rice, specialties that reflect the family's West Indian heritage. Sometimes these days, however, he forgets to eat. He wonders what his daughter was doing in the line of fire. The 507th wasn't trained for battle, though Shana knew how to shoot an M-16 rifle in defense. Unlike pilots...
...walks the neat subdivision, tying yellow ribbons around trees. The streets are named after baseball heroes: Roger Maris, Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra. Just to the north lies the Fort Bliss military reservation, spread across white sands. With winds kicking up the Chihuahuan Desert last week, the sky over El Paso was filled with irritating sand--much like that coating the troops in Iraq. Johnson, trapped in his own hell, doesn't notice. "The wait is extremely painful now," he says. "We just don't know what's going on." Until the International Red Cross confirms that his daughter is still...