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...investors who put at least $1 million -- or half that in rural or depressed areas -- into an American business that employs 10 or more workers. So, Wu, 22, is injecting $1.1 million, which he got mostly from his family, into a new gas station and car wash in Chula Vista, Calif. David Liang, a San Diego real estate broker who led Wu to the investment, claims there are plenty of other prospective Americans ready to plunk down their money for a fast track to permanent residency, the major step toward citizenship. "This is only my first project," he says...
Standing 25 ft. above Beyer Boulevard in Chula Vista, Calif., near San Diego, the blank billboard attracted no attention until some passersby claimed they saw a face in the shadows caused by the light fixtures. The face, they swore, was that of Laura Arroyo, 9, a local girl who was abducted and murdered last month. Gawkers began gathering in twos and threes, then in ever larger throngs. One evening last week, an estimated 25,000 assembled amid ice-cream and food vendors, causing a two-mile-long traffic jam. One hustling entrepreneur took over a vacant lot and charged...
Seeking to relieve the traffic congestion, the billboard company installed more powerful lights to alter the shadows. But the multitude did not disperse: spectators claimed that the new pattern formed the likeness of another Chula Vista girl, murdered five years before...
...evening. It turns out that south Texas not only looks like Africa, it apparently tastes like it too. The rhinos have been thriving on a local bush called huisache (pronounced wee-satch this side of the border), a relative of the African acacia. Macho and his mate Chula chomp down about 40 lbs. of it a day. The two now live in separate pastures because on Feb. 28 Chula gave birth to their first offspring: a healthy female calf...
...sweetest little thing?" Calvin whispers. "I'd like to make a pet of her." Suddenly the mother rhino wheels and storms at the guests, who jump away from the fence. As Chula nudges the baby back to the safety of the tall grass, the raspy warning grunt of a wild rhinoceros saws through the quiet of the south Texas twilight...