Word: seale
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Hispanic immigrant-support groups in California are indignant about the latest U.S. attempt to seal the border with Mexico. In mid-June military reservists began placing thick steel sheets along a 14-mile stretch between Tijuana and San Diego County. The metal is surplus landing-strip material from the gulf war. Some residents on both sides find the wall offensive, but the U.S. stands firm. "The Immigration and Naturalization Service is simply trying to do what it can with a limited budget," says a U.S. embassy official...
...artisan who became the ablest propagandist of the American Revolution. At first he could find no one in Philadelphia willing to print the pamphlet he called Common Sense. It was too fiery, he was told, too seditious, and at this point a more cautious man might have learned to seal his lips. But finally a fellow radical, notorious, among other things, for living openly "in sin," agreed to roll the presses. Common Sense was born, with its great news that Americans had it in their power to overthrow the "crowned ruffians," the "royal brute," and "begin the world over again...
...forced beneath the thicker continental slabs. The friction of grinding rock, combined with heat welling up from the earth's interior, transmutes the lower edge of the oceanic plate into magma. Thick with silica, this type of magma tends to solidify near the surface, forming domes and plugs that seal off the channels through which the magma rises. Such blockages turn a volcano into a giant pressure cooker. At a certain point, when the surrounding rock is no longer strong enough to hold the expanding magma, the mountain blows apart...
...there was one outstanding Crimson performance in the Columbia game, it was the play of senior linebacker Joe Gordian. Gordian picked off Lion quarter-back Bruce Mayhew twice on the afternoon, including an interception with one minute remaining to seal the Harvard...
...Seal stores are large and dramatic (3,900 sq. ft. on average), and the merchandise is displayed all the way up to the ceiling on high-tech impressionistic wire mannequins bathed in track lighting. Tops, pants, shorts and jackets are often clustered in the same spot for customers who can't match clothes on their own. Many stores also boast a 25-screen video wall from which computer-controlled rock videos play perpetually. By using computers, boasts marketing director Lesly Martin, "our buyers were actually able to track the day neon beachwear died." Radical...