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...term "used" in search queries has increased 21.8% since the beginning of the year, indicating that people are using the Internet as a means of locating price savings over "brand new." This change in consumer behavior is also apparent in the individual domains with the greatest increases in traffic over the last year. The online classifieds website Craigslist.org is up 93.4% comparing the week ending May 31, 2008 to the same time period...
...their total sales to jump 111% within five years, by which point they will account for 22% of total sales. And selling on the web can help boost a company's brick-and-mortar sales, too. "It's our most powerful marketing tool and a significant driver of store traffic," says David Duplantis, the senior vice president who oversees web sales for Coach, the American leather goods manufacturer. Coach.com receives 60 million visits a year, and 40% of Coach customers say they view products online before making in-store purchases...
...Operation Jump Start--which deployed National Guard troops to bolster border security--Dart has, by his rough estimate, helped stop "thousands of tons of marijuana, tons of methamphetamine" and countless human beings. It's no coincidence that the CBP's new busiest sector, in both human and drug traffic, is the one next door to Yuma. Crossings didn't stop--they moved...
...array of force that had gone into their capture: the trucks, the ATVs, the radios, the guns, the bird. If they had been picked up in Yuma Sector, they would have been headed for jail. But there aren't enough courtrooms and cells to handle Tucson Sector's traffic. "They'll probably be on the bus back to Mexico by noon," Dart said...
...into the country illegally. McPartland's sector was the first to put up a border fence, as part of Operation Gatekeeper in the 1990s. Before that fence, San Diego Sector processed close to 1,000 captured illegal aliens on busy nights, but Gatekeeper cut that number while pushing illegal traffic into the mountains west of the city. The Air Mobile Unit was created to get teams of agents into the rugged countryside...