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Dick and Patty Peterson found Sonora while driving from their Berkeley, Calif., home to Yosemite National Park. Passing through the town over the years, they grew to love the rugged countryside, and they fantasized about retiring there one day. Four years ago, they did just that, buying a four-bedroom ranch-style home...
...Sonora is the largest of the gold-rush sites that lured fortune seekers to California in the mid-1800s. One hundred fifty years later, the region is attracting a new breed of adventurer, seeking wealth measured by affordable housing, pleasant weather and small-town charm...
...drama of Mexico's elite, the New York Times on Wednesday highlighted six characters, among whom are the former President's eldest brother, a former Deputy Attorney General and two state governors, one the former leader of Mexico's national anti-drug campaign and the other, the governor of Sonora, the Mexican state bordering on Arizona. An eminent assortment, to say the least...
...also served to focus attention on the potential of "native" (as opposed to imported) pollinators. "We need to remember that tens of thousands of other species have been out there all along, working shifts around the clock," says Pollinators co-author Nabhan, director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...
...heads of the Tijuana cartel, the Arrellano Falix brothers, have also come under pressure for their suspected role in accidentally gunning down a bishop in Guadalajara. (The real target of the shooting is thought to have been Joaquin Guzman, another suspected drug lord, whose power base is in Sonora.) With the Garcia Abregos and the Arrellano Felixes lying low, the field has been left open to the low-key, efficient Carillo...