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...part of the 2,000-mile-long border that conservationists are increasingly worried about. While politicians of all stripes focus on the 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...
Imagine an area the size of the state of Rhode Island with only one wagon track crossing its vast emptiness, an 860,000-acre wildlife refuge in Arizona's Sonoran Desert along the Mexican border that comprises 56 miles of what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls the "loneliest international boundary in the continent." In fact, you'll have to imagine it, because while that description of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge still appears on its web site, there are now 1,200 miles of illegal roads and footpaths created by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants scarring...
...they shot him like a dog." Bilal died on the sidewalk of a narrow dirty street of drab apartment blocks on one side and a small garden and beige stone clad mosque on the other. Since his death, the Lebanese army and police apparently have not entered the area, wary of the simmering resentment in this close-knit quarter...
...build up an institute that’s devoted to this neglected dimension of global health is very exciting,” Murray said. “I think there’s increasingly a critical mass of people dedicated to different dimensions of global health in the Seattle area, so it’s an exciting place...
...Boston neighborhood marked a meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force Wednesday night. During the meeting between Harvard officials, Boston officials, and the task force—17 mayor-appointed local residents—Harvard planners outlined the ways in which construction of the science complex would impact the area. University officials estimate that over the three to four years that it will take to complete construction of the proposed science complex, up to 1,000 workers will be present on the Western Avenue construction site. Questions about what streets those workers will use to navigate into...