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...need that drives Mexicans to cross the border and seek work in California and other southwestern states. Widespread corruption and government control have wrecked the Mexican economy to the point that jobs are simply not available. Jobs available for Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are perhaps poor by American stan dards, but pay and conditions are vastly superior to what is available in Mexico...
...conservatives have their own favorite research, described by one of the authors in the Wall Street Journal but not yet generally available: two studies by Utah researchers named Stan Weed and Joseph Olsen. Their major finding is that during a period when the number of teens using family-planning clinics rose from 300,000 to 1.5 million, the teen pregnancy rate actually increased 19%. Births were down, they said, but only because of abortion. "Apparently the programs are more effective at convincing teens to avoid birth than to avoid pregnancy," Weed wrote in the Journal. The point: teens tend...
...drizzly Stadium, Tribe star-quarterback Stan Yagiello burned Harvard for a 44-yd. touchdown pass with just over two minutes left to give the visitors a 21-14 victory. Overall on the day, Yagiello amassed 306 yards passing...
...Stan Lundine is also Cuomo's man. A candidate for lieutenant governor, Congressman Lundine voted in favor of the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget act. Lundine is also boring. Lundine is also no threat to Cuomo...
Boggs had one hit on the day, a fourth inningsingle, giving him 200 hits for the fourthconsecutive year and making him the first Red Soxever to accomplish that feat. Boggs also becamethe first player since Stan Musial in 1953 togather 200 hits and 100 walks in the same season...