Word: sun
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Shakespearian scholar and Professor of English Marjorie Garber will also be going south. "I'm going to Boca Raton, Florida, where my mother now lives," she said, adding that she hopes to spend some time in the sun...
Just as the sun slips toward the Pacific, they gather along Latin America's northernmost fringe. Several hundred white, mainly lower-middle-class Southern Californians arrive in dusty pickups and weathered sedans to confront what they say is a criminal invasion of America. They park single file along a marshy field on the San Diego-Tijuana border. Soon the men and women are engaged in chitchat typical of a social event. Their crimson bumper stickers proclaim WE WANT ORDER ON OUR BORDER, a demand that nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents work hard to enforce. Some of the 800 officers...
...Stuff-A-Pumpkin's popularity has prompted an outbreak of plastic-bag thefts, leaves and all. A Houston family ended a string of such heists by coating the bags with grip-defying petroleum jelly. Benson Zinbarg, Sun Hill's president and founder, safeguards his own Stuff-A-Pumpkin by weighing it down with bricks...
...KRAYS. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play. In the 1960s these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's docudrama underscores the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays...
...problem goes deeper. Last week, when news of the Chunnel breakthrough was announced, the Sun, Britain's leading tabloid, cautioned its readers, "It won't be long before the garlic-breathed bastilles will be here in droves once the Channel Tunnel is open." Deep in the British psyche there is a conservatism about ending the island-nation status. Labour Party transport spokesman John Prescott calls this attitude one of England's greatest problems. "We're going to have to be more reoriented toward Europe," he says. In spite of Britain's reservations, when the main breakthrough occurs...