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...human side of the noisy immigration debate, there is a rising concern over what illegal immigration and the U.S. response to it may do to the area's fragile ecosystems. The $7.6 billion federal Secure Border Initiative passed last year calls for the construction of 370 miles of pedestrian fence along the border by 2008 - 129 miles in Arizona, 153 in Texas, 76 in California and 12 in New Mexico. Pedestrian fences have so far proved useful in inhibiting human traffic, but conservationists and others worry they limit access to the habitat for endangered species such as jaguars...
...Still DiRosa insists, "You can't put a bar on this border. Anything you put is nothing more than a lock that has to be watched. We need detection technology, patrols." Retaining open borders for wildlife may mean using several approaches, including vehicle and pedestrian barriers in some areas, technology, drones, radar and more human patrols in others, he said...
...evoke in an individual (in today's market that feeling, ideally, is desire). Think of the stylish plasticity of the iPod, or the silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous Alessi teakettle, or the nostalgia of a surfboard-shaped Marc Newson aluminum table. Great design is both astonishing and pedestrian. It can be shockingly fashionable and downright useful. These days, design touches almost every part of our lives, thanks to mass-market manufacturers and retailers...
...Lies” reads in small font “A Novel.” The omission of “Spy” is telling. This is not a Spy Novel in the vein of Graham Greene and John Le Carré; it’s just a pedestrian novel that’s even less interesting than the hundreds of cookie cutter thrillers that crowd airport bookstores...
Gehry, landscape architect Laurie Olin, and the New York-based planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners were charged with creating a master plan for Allston in 2004. Gehry helped brainstorm ideas to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic on Anderson bridge, and he studied the feasibility of moving undergraduate houses across the Charles River...