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...brand-new Volkswagen Beetles, 16,250 toasters, $51 million worth of auto parts, everything from the little plastic knob on the air conditioner to your cell-phone charger. It all comes in trucks and boxcars and little panel vans, and that's just the stuff that Customs can keep track of. There is also the vast shadow market--not just the cocaine and heroin and freshly laundered money but also cut-price Claritin and steroids and banned bug killers and boots made from the flippers of endangered sea turtles...
...over the border to help Mexican schools that are lucky to have a roof, much less desks and chairs. El Paso is redesigning the kilns of Juarez brickmakers to cut the soot from burning old tires; the twin cities have signed more treaties than their national governments can keep track of, let alone ratify. "The only way the cities in this region can make it," says Juarez mayor Gustavo Elizondo, "is to forget that a line and a river exist here...
...Democrats can't be accused of lacking ideas: many of the party's most prominent leaders are putting out long tomes detailing their views. Later this month, Ted Kennedy's book America Back on Track will lay out ideas to ensure universal health care for all Americans, and House Democrat Rahm Emanuel and former Clinton aide Bruce Reed will put out a modestly titled book called The Plan in August that includes ideas such as a national science and technology center modeled on the National Institutes of Health. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has told the Chicago Tribune his new book...
...would be foolish to expect the best faculty-student interaction in large lecture courses like the Courses in General Education.This plan, however, has one large stumbling block: with a few exceptions for administrators who teach on the side, Harvard’s current policy limits lecturers in non-tenure-track positions to only eight years of teaching. Over the years, this rule has caused the departure of some top-quality talent—most recently Social Analysis 10 teaching fellow Bruce D. Watson and Preceptor in Mathematics John D. Boller. With a constant turnover of lecturers (and their teaching acumen...
...once. And according to a 2005 report by Trust for America's Health, a non-profit that focuses on disease prevention, few states are prepared to cope with major disease outbreaks on their own. The report found problems at every level: nearly half the states did not adequately track disease outbreaks; hospitals in almost one third of states weren't prepared to cope with a surge in patients; and 21 states did not have sufficient backup supplies to ventilate even 10 additional patients, never mind the thousands that would be needed in a full-fledged flu pandemic...