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...border is people. Mexicans who want to move to the U.S. find a door that's been dead-bolted--but cheesed with countless tiny holes. About 400,000 Mexicans cross over every morning to shop or visit; yet they cannot work or stay more than a few days. Several thousand try to sneak across each night, but most are caught by the border patrol; those who make it disappear into the underground economy. A tiny number apply for visas to live and work in America legally, but most are rejected. U.S. policy treats Mexican immigrants the same way it treats...
...shared more within the campus community. Humanities majors are labeled “North Campus,” which is where they take most classes, while science majors are “South Campus” students. And to complicate matters further, there are about five hundred thousand majors; no one is ever just majoring in “bio,” but instead are “psychobiology” or “biotechnical sciences” or “physiological biology.” Such a huge school ensures ample resources (and often a necessity...
...scientists to trace the area's geologic history.) The verdict, confirmed by a second dating method and by the other primitive animals found with the hominid remains: most of the fossils are between 5.6 million and 5.8 million years old, although one toe bone is a few hundred thousand years younger...
...likely to read straight through. No matter, because the first six chapters alone are worth the cover price. Diamond's brutal debunking of alternative therapies such as homeopathy, reflexology and herbalism doesn't dwell on the scientific particulars. But why should it? You could have read a thousand times - perhaps in magazines like this one - that there's little or no scientific evidence for the promises made for many alternative therapies. And yet plenty of educated people regularly buy unproven "natural" remedies. (It's a multi-billion-dollar, multinational industry.) Diamond instead carefully defuses the anti-intellectualism that makes...
...have declined by 30 cents a gallon to a national average of $1.41 a gallon since their mid-May high - 16 cents in the last week alone and 13 cents lower than last summer at this time, according to the Energy Department. Natural gas prices, after hitting $10 a thousand cubic feet last December, have dropped to the $3 range. Even in California, dire warnings of countless days of blackouts this summer have not materialized - there hasn't been one since early May - and electricity prices have declined dramatically. And more power is expected to come on line from several...