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...life these past four weeks has been noticeably less stressful. They have enjoyed less traffic on their streets. They have been able to walk and drive through downtown without being accosted by panhandlers, windshield washers and purse-snatching kids. Crowds have been fewer in many stores and restaurants. This sudden change is the result of an unprecedented ironfisted blockade of the El Paso-Mexico border by the U.S. Border Patrol. Agents posted around the clock along a 20-mile stretch of the Rio Grande have virtually sealed off entry to illegal aliens, who used to stream into El Paso...
...will be an increasingly difficult task, as power inevitably wanes and every issue becomes tainted with politics in the struggle to choose a Reagan successor. ''It is absolutely uncanny,'' muses Regan. ''Something small that you think is just a nit and a gnat, and all of a sudden, if not handled correctly or somebody gets offended by the way it is handled, it blows up into a major issue. Take the Mike Deaver case. It never occurred to me that that is the kind of subject that could suddenly become a lead story. You open up the paper...
...going on to win (his only front-of-the-pack victory was at Turnberry in 1986). He will remain one of the sport's great tragic figures, his career marked by bad luck (consider the 1987 Masters, when Larry Mize miraculously holed a 140-foot chip shot in a sudden-death playoff) but also an inner flaw linked to overreaching (see the final round of the 1996 Masters, when a six-stroke lead turned into a five-stroke loss...
...early as last summer, months before Ledger's sudden death in January, Warner Bros. sensed that Nolan was filming something that might transcend mere fanboy fodder. With Batman Begins, in 2005, the director successfully rebooted the troubled franchise, but this time around his decision to go darker - and The Dark Knight is as mordant a superhero movie as there has ever been - dovetailed with the popular mood. "We saw the dailies coming in and we knew we had an incredible movie," says Fellman. Though Christian Bale's Batman is The Dark Knight's star, it was Ledger's knife-wielding...
Disease plays a role as well, with whole coral colonies wiped out by sudden sickness. That rise in illness may be linked to warmer sea temperatures, which is caused by climate change. And it's global warming that poses the most serious threat to the survival of coral. Corals have a symbiotic relationship with a kind of algae that provide nutrients and energy through photosynthesis - not to mention the vivid colors we associate with coral reefs. When corals are stressed by rising temperatures, the algae are expelled by the coral, turning the reefs bone white. That's a "bleaching event...