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Sound and Furynew
A vivid documentary traces border vigilantism in Southern Arizona.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
08-25-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Texas' Schismnew
As parents and advocates reach an impasse over whether state institutions for the mentally retarded should close, Texas abandons its responsibility to care for its neediest citizens. First in a two-part series
San Antonio Current |
Lisa Sorg |
08-25-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Texas' Funding Crisis for Mental Retardation Servicesnew
Nationally, Texas ranks among the lowest in funding for mental-retardation services. What does that mean for the future of state schools and community programs? Second in a two-part series
San Antonio Current |
Lisa Sorg |
08-25-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Count Them In
Growing numbers of Mexican immigrants are in the US illegally -- but their money is legit.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dan Frosch |
08-24-2005 |
Immigration
Drinking in a Kabul Barnew
In August 2005, the author hung out at a Kabul bar with drunken soldiers, military contractors and a few other shady types -- and gained unusual insight into an already forgotten war.
Maui Time |
Barukh Shalev |
08-24-2005 |
International
Tags: international
Biologists Enlist Fish to Fight Aquatic Weedsnew
Unchecked, hydrilla can fill lakes and ponds with dense, green curtains that choke out native species and snare boats and swimmers. But it appears to have met its match in another equally exotic species -- the sterile grass carp.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestly |
08-23-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Into the Blogospherenew
Blogging is the new way to do news in Western North Carolina and around the world. Bloggers are part reporter/part diarist and run the gamut from politics to the arts and education.
Mountain Xpress |
Steve Shanafelt |
08-23-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
University of Colorado's Public Relations Gaffes Pile Upnew
Since a complete catalogue of CU's stumbles would fill a library, Westword has skimmed off the cream of the crap -- a chronological top-ten list of the university's most memorable PR gaffes since December 2001, when football players and recruits arrived at a party that's still producing headlines.
Tags: Education
Pulling into a Remote Controlled Futurenew
Will a new generation of curbside sensors end our parking problems -- or help the government monitor our every move?
Tags: Health & Science
Middle Eastern Students Face Discrimination at Public Schoolsnew
There is room for legitimate debate about the proper responses to the potential for domestic terrorism, but one clearly indefensible reaction has been widely seen and little discussed.
SF Weekly |
Cristi Hegranes |
08-23-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Acquitted Man Says He Knows Who Killed His Wifenew
A jury says Jeffrey Krotine didn't kill his wife, and he says her death is the result of an elaborate conspiracy that implicates his longtime employer as well as the prosecutors who tried to put him away.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
08-23-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
From High School Slut to Board of Education Anti-Evolutionistnew
In her tell-all autobiography, Connie Morris reveals that before she was an enemy of evolution, she was a black-haired siren -- frolicking in free love, drowning in drugs and enduring domestic violence before giving herself to Christ. But even Jesus couldn't tame her.
The Pitch |
Justin Kendall |
08-23-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Murder, Out of Camera Rangenew
A handyman with a violent past allegedly taking a metal pipe to his girlfriend in front of numerous witnesses on a grimy Fort Lauderdale street? Nancy Grace, Larry King, the National Enquirer, and the rest took no notice.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jeff Stratton |
08-23-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Fear Not: Vaccinations Don't Give Children Autismnew
A prominent neurologist presents both sides of the case that mercury-based vaccines have caused a surge in autism -- and points out the dangers of believing in this myth.
New Haven Advocate |
Steven Novella, M.D. |
08-23-2005 |
Science
At the Readynew
When the president of a Texas Minuteman group resigned because he couldn't stand the racist tendencies of other members in his chapter, it left many Houston residents debating the purpose of the volunteer border patrollers, and what good they might be doing.
Houston Press |
Keith Plocek |
08-22-2005 |
Immigration
