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...Mexican authorities fear that incidents like the shootout at Minatitlan may also signal the start of a new wave of violence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. The U.S. believes organized smuggling rings are responsible for a dramatic increase in illegal traffic along the border--and in the unprecedented numbers of migrants dying in their attempts to get in. This year more than 250 migrants have perished along both sides of the border, including at least 100 this summer, when crossings are the most dangerous because of the desert heat. (In Arizona, 50 migrants died in July alone...
...beginning of the construction has been delayed by several months as the city agonized over granting it the necessary permits, and neighbors raised concerns about the car traffic, garbage, noise and light pollution that such a project might introduce to the area. Carr’s plans no longer include a restaurant for patrons, and the number of seats will likely be smaller than in his initial designs...
...Bangkok 8 is set in Bangkok is an understatement: it is suffused with the cooking smells, mired in the traffic jams and entangled in the bare limbs of the sex workers of Bangkok. Not that the novel is slow going. Bangkok 8 goes from 0 to 60 in about 10 pages, where 60 is a cop dying after he gets bitten by a cobra. Bitten in the eyeball. By a cobra that's high on meth...
...limited number of free text messages per month, but additional messages can cost from 10˘ to 25˘ each. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991--amended in June to include the highly publicized National Do Not Call Registry--covers unsolicited cell-phone traffic, with a $500 fine for abusers. Says the FCC's Dan Rumelt: "Consumers should file complaints with us." In addition, consumer advocates and the FCC recommend that you ask your cell-phone service how it deals with text-message spam under your plan. --By Avery Holton
...generally how much traffic someone’s using—if you’re using a pretty normal share [or] if you’re using 20 percent of the University’s bandwidth,” explained Kevin S. Davis ’98, who is coordinator of residential computing for the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS...