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...show up for school, according to Ana Vargas, a Chicago public schools spokeswoman. In Los Angeles, some 72,000 students in 6th to 12th grades skipped classes, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Ulises Estrada, a 16-year-old student at South Dade High School in Homestead, Fla., said he joined a local march because he has been waiting for legalization since he was a year old - when his parents brought him over the border with them from Yucatan, Mexico. "I speak fluent English. I study hard, and I want to join the Army when I graduate...
...close for comfort. Last Christmas a pregnant Cindy Green and her husband Todd flew with their two children, Jonah, 4, and Caroline, 2, from North Carolina to Cindy's mother's home in Massachusetts. This time, in contrast to previous years, they didn't gather in the old family homestead; Cindy's mother had downsized to a small two-bedroom condo. So Green installed herself on the living-room couch, Todd and Jonah slept in the second bedroom, and Caroline bunked with Grandma. "It was tough, especially because the first night, Caroline came down with a stomach...
This modern-day Homestead Act is a pale version of the one authorized by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, when settlers were given 160-acre tracts to encourage building out the frontier with farms and ranches. Today there is no central authority; the programs are initiated and run locally. Yet Washington has taken note. In March, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota reintroduced a bill that would forgive college debts, grant tax credits for a home purchase and fund small-business start-ups in counties that have lost at least 10% of their...
...maid for Johnson and his second wife, and three years later married him a week after his divorce. During their twelve-year marriage the pair embarked upon a style of high living to which even he had been previously unaccustomed. Together they created a $30 million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even before the bequest that may make her one of the world's wealthiest women, she cut a swath through auction houses, and recently...
...before that his grandfather, and before that his great grandfather. Next year, however, title to the property will pass to a local conservation group called the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust. "It's kind of sad to see it go," says Larry of the sale of the family homestead. "But my dad and uncle are both retiring, and I guess they wanted a little cash in their pockets." For as long as he can remember, Larry Moeller has associated the cranes with the coming of spring. This year the first pairs landed on Feb. 1, declaring...