Word: patrollers
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...that's been dead-bolted--but cheesed with countless tiny holes. About 400,000 Mexicans cross over every morning to shop or visit; yet they cannot work or stay more than a few days. Several thousand try to sneak across each night, but most are caught by the border patrol; those who make it disappear into the underground economy. A tiny number apply for visas to live and work in America legally, but most are rejected. U.S. policy treats Mexican immigrants the same way it treats people from everywhere else: get in line--unless you have connections or unique skills...
...degrees]F to 10[degrees]F higher than that of the surrounding water by recycling heat from its swimming muscles. This allows great whites to hunt in cooler seas. "It seems to make them more vigorous," says Van Sommeran. The sharks are voracious eaters of seals when they patrol the Red Triangle--a 100-mile strip of California coast from Bodega Bay to Santa Cruz. They have enormous livers to store energy, and can go for months without eating. Nobody has seen great whites mate, but some biologists theorize that after fattening up off the coast, they head into...
...race, is the answer. "Poor neighborhoods have drugs being sold, disorderly conduct, gangs, trash being thrown on the street, fights, loud music. So police will make more stops in those areas," he says. He notes that he "constantly" gets requests from black neighborhoods for more--not fewer--cops to patrol the streets...
...stop, 16 people were pinned against the building's front wall. Conlon had sustained injuries to his leg, shoulder and liver. Someone opened the driver's door and Grubman "fell out of the car," said a witness. She fled in a friend's car. By the time patrol cars got to the friend's house, so had her lawyer. With her attorney running blocker, police could not even ascertain if Grubman had been driving the car, says Suffolk County district attorney James Catterson. "She was lawyered up, as we like to say." By the time police showed her photo...
...said. Sinar is disillusioned by the treatment of Malays in the area. In Java, grown men fight tears when they recall the day milk for their children became too expensive. In Aceh, the perception that the people are being ripped off leads to bloodshed. There's a constant military patrol even in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, a supposedly peaceful enclave in a region defined not by its wonderful coffee or the sparkling blue water off the northern coast - almost shocking after the prevailing brown of what passes for harbors and rivers elsewhere - but by atrocities that have piled...