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...Attorney General Jerry Brown, the former governor who leads in polls to succeed Schwarzenegger, recounted the perils of water politics in California. In 1981, Brown signed a bill to build a periphery canal, which would have transported Sacramento River water around the ecologically fragile Delta and directly into a southbound aqueduct. "After passage an unholy alliance united against it," said Brown. "Farmers thought there were too many environmental restrictions and environmentalists thought there was not enough environmental protections. They ganged up and put an initiative on the ballot which won and killed the canal." The creation of the Delta council...
...while some $21 billion of imports came north, according to the Texas Center for Border Economy and Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International University. In Brownsville alone, in the first two months of this year, there were 297,478 legal pedestrian crossings north and 284,662 legal southbound crossings. Personal-vehicle crossings were almost double that number. Almost 4 million passenger vehicles crossed each way between Texas cities and their sister communities in Mexico in the first two months of this year, while almost half a million trucks headed south in the same period and 370,000 headed north...
...Lions and Quakers didn’t prove difficult to handle—Harvard easily beat both despite Penn’s tapering and employment of fast suits—but the weather did. With heavy snow blanketing the highway as the team attempted to make its way southbound the evening before the meet, the bus was forced off the road and the swimmers found themselves in a Connecticut hotel with little way of preparing...
...Tarantino Jury did give a prize to a politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...
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