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...which might suggest the fumings of a dyspeptic recluse. In fact, Fowles, 59, and his wife Elizabeth equably fill the role of prominent citizens in the resort town of Lyme Regis on England's southwestern coast. He has made his peace with the town, a Tory stronghold, and plunged into directing the local natural history museum. The town, in turn, has recovered from the hullabaloo over filming The French Lieutenant's Woman there five years...
Those colliding statements, both from Southwestern scholars in the field of immigration studies, reflect the controversy that surrounds a seemingly straightforward but highly emotional question: Does the inflow of illegal foreign labor help or hurt the U.S. economy...
...word Hispanic, to begin with, is a catchall term embracing new immigrants and some families that have been living in what is now the Southwestern U.S. for 300 years or more. It applies to people of white, black, Indian and, frequently, thoroughly mixed ancestry who hail from countries that sometimes seem to have little in common except historical traditions and the Spanish language itself, and even that gets a little confused at times. For example, the translation by someone from a country bordering the Caribbean for "I am waiting for the bus" might be taken by a native of South...
...Already Southwestern oilmen have formed an odd-couple alliance with East Coast Jewish groups called the Council for a Secure America. Their shared interest is to avoid U.S. dependence on Arab oil by encouraging domestic oil exploration. Now the lobbyists who dreamed up that coalition are trying to form a congressional link between Texas (oil and gas) and New York (deductibility of state and local taxes). "We'd have 61 votes in the House," says Dan Dutko of the Council for a Secure America. "It would be by far the largest single bloc on the issue." Congress cannot afford...
...from the now defunct orbiting Infrared Astronomical Satellite (I.R.A.S.), struggling to find a single pinpoint source of radiation that over a six-month period has shifted in a particular pattern among the fixed stars, as only a nearby planet can do. Says Daniel Whitmire, a University of Southwestern Louisiana astrophysicist who is involved in the search: "There's a chance it's already been recorded and is awaiting discovery right...