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...Carmen Frontera, Guatemalan immigration officials wait for the next busload of deportees. "I don't believe this will solve the problem," says one of them, with some reason. Already, he says, Central Americans are dodging the crackdown, using remote routes to cross the border into Mexico. Two thousand miles to the north, Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are doing precisely the same thing...
...past few years. Harley hopes to sell 11,000 V-Rods, which will be available this fall, by the end of this year. That's about 5% of its total annual output. Still, Harley is by no means guaranteed a smooth ride. The V-Rod is a few thousand dollars more expensive than comparable bikes like Honda's hot-selling VTX. And expanding beyond the core franchise is never easy, as Harley learned in the 1970s, when the company's owner at the time, AMF, blanketed the market with poorly designed clunkers...
...wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry. Next up, says Zhang, is a medical PDA that will store case records and allow doctors to write on-the-spot case notes and prescriptions, using Chinese character-recognition software...
...Anyway, that?s what I said when the record came out. Something of an obsessive in my youth, I must have played "What?d I Say" a thousand times on my plastic 45 in the third-floor back bedroom. (My parents, indulgent and slightly deaf, were two floors away.) I think even then I responded as much to the musical craft of the piece as to its hedonistic invitation to "shake that thing." It?s break from earlier Charles work was evident from the first note -on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling...
...stifled by a jackbooted state. Indeed, never before have those who live in Europe and North America been so prosperous, so safe, so free to wander the world, so richly endowed with the wonderful toys of high technology. Why, beyond the boredom that comfort always brings, have a few thousand self-styled anarchists decided to don face masks and body armor? Why fight...