Word: wiring
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...which scores of people can disappear from view. Ditches provide trails from the border to Highway 92, a distance of about three miles. That is the route that Ladd says 200 to 300 illegals take every night as they enter the U.S. They punch holes in the barbed-wire border fence and then tear up the many fences intended to separate the breeding cattle--Brahmin, Angus and Hereford--that divide the Ladd land...
...what happened earlier this year, when law-enforcement officers and Mexican drug runners engaged in a fire fight at the border in front of a detachment of Marines just back from Iraq, who were installing a steel fence to prevent illegal aliens from driving through the flimsy barbed wire. The Marines, unarmed, watched placidly. None were injured...
...first round of the NCAA tournament, ending its season with a 6-1 defeat to Maine Saturday afternoon at Pepsi Arena. With the loss, the Crimson moved to 0-3 all-time against the Black Bears in the postseason. But unlike the down-to-the-wire contests of 2002 and 2004, Saturday’s game was a blowout. “We were outplayed pretty much for the entire game, from top to bottom,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, adding, “[In] our biggest game of the year, to come...
...Qalandiya checkpoint terminal, the only entrance or exit to Ramallah. We walked through a 20-foot opening in the massive concrete wall the Israeli government had constructed around the city. Side-by-side with dozens of men, women and children, we walked through metal barriers lined with barbed wire in a cattle-like procession. We passed by the window of a security-check area where we could see two female Israeli soldiers lounging with their feet on the desk reading copies of Cosmo. The apparent normalcy, to both the Palestinians and Israelis, of this institutionalized humiliation and apartheid sickened...
...third match at the Murr Center this year, the Crimson (5-7) lost, 3-4, to No. 29 Michigan in a match that went down to the wire...