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...state is a curious testimony to Mexico's identity as an emigrant nation, in which enormous numbers of young men and women continue to risk their lives sneaking into "El Norte" for a perceived better life. Every weekend, dozens of participants pay about $20 apiece to scramble up hills, slide down ravines and run through tunnels pursued by siren-blaring pickup trucks and pumped-up border-patrol agents shouting in accented English. (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mexico, a Theme Park for Border Crossers | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...played point-for-point [with Penn and Princeton] a lot of times,” Crimson coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We really had them on the ropes. Friday night, it was a matter of a couple of blocks, and with Princeton, it was the slide attack that resulted in us falling short.” The Crimson finishes out the season on a road trip to New York next weekend, playing Columbia on Friday and Cornell the next day.“We had joked around about steamrolling [the opposing team] each time,” Weiss...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Day Doesn’t Bring Reversal of Recent Fortune | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...Right now, Tucker argues, most American teenagers slide through high school, viewing it as a mandatory pit stop to hang out and socialize. Of those who do go to college, half attend community college. So Tucker's thinking is why not let them get started earlier? If that happened nationwide, he estimates the cost savings would add up to $60 billion a year. "All money that can be spent either on early childhood education or elsewhere," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Be Able to Graduate After 10th Grade? | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...offensive team.” For the Crimson, avoiding last season’s mid-season slump—a 10-game winless streak that began with a 4-2 loss to then-No. 16 Rensselaer on Dec. 4th—looks certain to be a high priority. That slide coincided with a lapse in Biega’s own offensive production before the points returned in the season’s closing games.Indeed, all nine of Biega’s regular season goals came during the first 10 games of his college career. “I think Michael...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Generation: Michael Biega | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...even if the real estate slide is halted, that may not be enough to keep the domestic economy afloat. The Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance recently released reports projecting weakening local economies throughout the country. Japanese household spending in September is down for the seventh straight month. The number of heads of households without a job rose 20,000 from last year, up for the sixth straight month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Offers a Lifeline to Failing Businesses | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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