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...Chairman Duncan Hunter, a Republican from California, is a wall man; he wants to fence the southern boundary of the range. More cameras to watch the region might help, he says, but a physical barrier is essential. He hopes to replicate the success of the triple-layered fencing outside San Diego that led to a 70% drop in illegal immigration there. That's why he wrote Rumsfeld personally about fencing the range and co-sponsored the Secure Fence Act, a law on President Bush's desk that requires at least two layers of reinforced fencing to be built from Calexico...
...region. Walls are better suited to urban areas, where you have only seconds to stop someone coming over, say Johnson and other agents. In remote areas like the Goldwater Range, where agents have days to track down interlopers, maintaining fences seems wasteful. "People want to take what works in San Diego and apply it out here," Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said in June. "It won't work...
...When the acquisition is complete, YouTube will retain its distinct brand identity, strengthening and complementing Google?s own fast-growing video business. YouTube will continue to be based in San Bruno, CA, and all YouTube employees will remain with the company. With Google?s technology, advertiser relationships and global reach, YouTube will continue to build on its success as one of the world's most popular services for video entertainment...
...deal worthwhile, Google will have to prove that the market for video ads and distribution has broad commercial appeal. So far, YouTube has yet to turn its attention to making money from the millions of visitors it attracts every day. But just before inking the deal with Google, the San Bruno, Calif.-based startup signed licensing and distribution deals with CBS, Universal and Sony. That, YouTube hopes, will help keep the upstart from suffering the painful demise that hit Napster, which couldn't successfully parlay its huge Web audience into a profitable, legal social network...
...made his way into the awareness of American artists and the uses they made of him is the nicely executed purpose of "Picasso and American Art," a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that continues there through Jan. 28 before moving on to San Francisco and Minneapolis, Minn. It's a show, by the way, that might just as well be called "Big Daddy." For artists seeking a way forward, Picasso was the classic Oedipal father, the man who had to be dealt with, digested and finally overthrown...