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...broken-down fence between Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, California, stretches directly in front of David Gomez Rocha's plywood shack. Seven days a week the 28-year-old rises at 3 a.m. for a two-hour trip across the border to pick asparagus for $4.25 an hour. Granted amnesty in 1987, Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals...
...Radio Shack and other stores sell devices called "ferrite cores" or "filter chokes." These little boxes attach to wires and absorb interference...
Students willing to spend money to ridthemselves of the music can buy ferrite cores,iron devices which absorb radio waves, at anyRadio Shack, according to Rassen. Wrapping powercords around these cores will reduce interferencefrom the transmitter...
Like many bright kids with a talent for things digital, Mark Abene (as he's known to his parents) decided early on that computers were going to be his ticket to stardom. Raised in a working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, he used his $300 Radio Shack computer like a magic carpet to cyberspace, staying up all night to explore the mysteries of the worldwide telephone grid. Phiber had a gift: computers yielded their secrets to his prying fingers like jewels to a safecracker. Eventually, he dropped out of school to pursue his education in the online world...
...Monde," the story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe (played by Jean-Pierre Marielle), as narrated by his student, Marin Marais (Gerard Depardieu), is ultimately one of inspiration through lament. Had it not been for the death of Saint Colombe's wife, he would not have withdrawn into a tiny shack on his property where he invented mournful compositions and added a seventh string to the viola. Sainte Colombe is a consummate artist, but also a madman...