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...same time, political observers like Denise Maerker, a prominent columnist for the Mexico City daily El Universal, fear that provincial governments in places like Chiapas, where the weapons were found, are using 2010 fears as a pretext for cracking down on social activists. "They're drawing questionable links between advocates for the poor and armed groups," says Maerker, who adds there's little evidence that Hernandez is an EPR boss. (See pictures from Ciudad Juarez, the most dangerous city in the Americas...
...Calderón can turn the bicentennial into a transformative engine, however, he has to get it jump-started. The economic crisis has forced chronic delays for a quarter of the more than 600 bicentennial projects Mexico had on the drawing board. Rather than being afraid of 2010, says Maerker, Mexicans are instead "just weary, especially of the economic situation." The year 2010 might not offer the fireworks of a revolution, but, unless Mexico can escape its general malaise, the bicentennial might see a quiet but dispiriting national devolution...
...quiet Friday evening a snarling 60-lb. dog-part shepherd, part collie-sat itself on the front porch of Pauline Maerker's house in the small (pop. 10,000), southern Illinois farm community of Murphysboro. When Maerker's daughter, Ruth Ann, 27, tried to walk out of the house, the animal's angry growl drove her back. When her son, Harold, 42, opened the door, the dog leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that...
...Concentration," for the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, by L. J. Henderson, W. W. Palmer, and L. H. Newburgh; "Review of Clara H. Collitz,--Selections from German Literature," for Bulletin of the New England Modern Language Association, Vol. IV, by F. W. C. Lieder: "Theodore Fontane als Maerker," for Teitschrift fuer den deutschen Unterricht, Vol. 28; "Review of Professor Eugen Kuhnemann's book, Von Weltreich des deutschen Geistes Reden und Aufsatze, Munchen, 1914," for Frankfurter. Zeitung, Number 133, by F. Schoenemann; "Zur Literatur geschichte der Mark Brandenburg," for Modern Philology, Vol. XI, by F. Schoenemann; "The Ideal Obstretic...