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...look you right in the eye." Since Sept. 11, the Customs Service has been on a Level One alert--the most rigorous inspection regimen and one that, in the first days after the attacks, caused 25-mile, 16-hour-long backups at the Ambassador Bridge. Those delays shut down auto assembly lines from Flint, Mich., to Hermosillo, Mexico--and put Anderson and his 45 inspectors under relentless pressure to keep the commerce flowing while letting neither terrorists nor weapons of mass destruction across the border...
...quarter of all U.S. trade with Canada comes across this four-lane bridge--6,000 trucks a day, one every 12 to 15 seconds, laden with lumber, steel, semiconductors, machinery, furniture, chemicals, produce, livestock and Canadian-made auto components for 41 GM, Ford and Chrysler assembly lines within a day's drive of Detroit. The task of policing the traffic is complicated by the area's large Middle Eastern population. Some customs officials say privately that if Ahmed Ressam--the al-Qaeda explosives courier arrested in Port Angeles, Wash., in 1999--had crossed the border at Windsor-Detroit, he would...
...growing power of that global, non-governmental constituency of environmentally concerned groups should not be underestimated. Their influence on global public opinion, and even consumer behavior, may be the single most important reason why more than 700 of the world's leading corporations (among them major oil companies and auto manufacturers) have gone to Johannesburg to tout their earth-friendly credentials. Indeed, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has worked hard to promote business-environmentalist partnership as a key component of a strategy to protect the environment. So, while the planet may be a long way from being saved, when...
...happening through a combination of faith, hope and desperation. At the beginning of Khoshal Khan A, Abdil Jalil, 55, pulls water from a well, dumps it on a pile of dirt, and molds mud to make a poor man's unfired bricks. His auto repair shop was looted during the civil war and then expropriated by the Taliban. Now he's selling 1,000 bricks for less than $8, working with a team of friends?but still unable at times to meet the demand...
...caused by the recent massive flooding in Europe, according to E.U. officials 4.3 million Americans were treated in hospital emergency rooms for sports-related injuries over a 12-month period ending in the summer of 2001, according to government researchers 3.5 million Americans landed in emergency rooms due to auto accidents over the same period 25% is how much more attractive people appeared to subjects under the influence of alcohol in a Scottish study 20 elephants are struck by vehicles in Bangkok every month, prompting authorities to announce a law last Thursday barring the animals from city streets...