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...original Gaia was a femme fatale. Hesiod, a Greek from the 6th century B.C., tells her lurid tale in The Theogony. Born of the state of chaos, Gaia the Earth immaculately conceived her first brood of children, among which was the Sky, Uranus. Earth and Sky "united," giving birth to the Titans, the last of whom was Chronos, Time. Feisty Chronos, seeking to overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded...
Large numbers of Hispanic passengers are nothing unusual on flights at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Ariz. But there was something not quite right about the group of more than 100 Hispanics boarding Delta's Flight 1800, a red-eye to Atlanta, on Tuesday, Feb. 16. When the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was brought in to investigate, sure enough, 102 of the 186 passengers were illegal aliens. Two days later, the INS checked another Phoenix flight, American Trans Air Flight 751 to Chicago. Of the 171 passengers aboard, 60 were illegals. Another ATA flight later that day turned...
...says all three groups were part of an organized ring smuggling illegal aliens into the U.S. Since February 1996 the agency has arrested more than 3,000 people at Sky Harbor. "This is a pretty enterprising group of individuals," says Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the Western regional office of the INS. "Drug smuggling gets a lot more press. But the smuggling of human beings is a multibillion-dollar enterprise...
...recalled later in Little Women. In real life it was inhabited by a succession of local celebrities--the Alcotts (1845-48), before they moved to Orchard House; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-53 and 1860-64), who gave the house its current name and added the Italianate tower topped with a "sky-parlour"; and Harriett Lothrop (1883-1924), who under the pen name Margaret Sidney wrote the classic Five Little Peppers books...
...SKY IS FALLING...