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- Some still rail over U.S. fence
- McALLEN, Texas -- Opponents of the U.S.-Mexican border fence in the Rio Grande Valley have launched a last-ditch volley of lawsuits to stop construction of the barrier, which began Sunday. Mayors, environmentalists, landowners and shopkeepers say the fence will destroy plant and animal species, hurt the...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Letter: Mailbag - Well done 'The Newsome Two' TREVOR WOOLLEY
- WHAT a pleasant surprise to read in Friday's Examiner about the activities of councillors Cooper and Stewart-Turner. They are actually representing the feelings of their constituents instead of sitting on the fence! Councillors in Linthwaite, when presented with similar concerns from their constituents about planned redevelopment, prefer to "take...
- Research articles 2008-07-22
- Israeli fire wounds six at Gaza border protest
- SUFA, Gaza Strip AFP — Six Palestinians were wounded on Friday when Israeli troops opened fire on demonstrators in the Gaza Strip as they neared the border fence, medics in the besieged territory said. Thousands of people joined the demonstration called by Hamas to demand that Israel lift its...
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- MLB baseball to formulate replay proposal
- NEW YORK -- A top baseball official will formulate a proposal for instant replay, and the technology could be tested in the Arizona Fall League this year. Jimmie Lee Solomon, the sport's executive vice president for baseball operations, wouldn't put a timetable on a replay plan, which was...
- Research articles 2008-05-23
- Four killed in Israeli raids on Gaza
- GAZA CITY AFP — Four Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, medics said, as US President George W. Bush landed in Israel on the first leg of a Middle East tour. Three Palestinians were killed during clashes with Israeli troops east of...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- Want to know how to build a virtual fence? ask border patrol.(SECURITY BEAT: HOMELAND DEFENSE BRIEFS)
- Designers of the Project 28 pilot program, which was envisioned as a virtual fence along the Southwest border, failed to ask users what they wanted in the system, according to the Government Accountability Office. After an eight-month delay, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems turned...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Border fence still faces challenges
- WASHINGTON -- At a cost of up to $4 million per mile, the concrete and steel fence rising along the Southwest border constitutes one of the most ambitious public works projects in years, encompassing legions of federal bureaucrats and a lineup of blue-ribbon contractors. ...
- Research articles 2008-04-27
- BYU erupts to throttle Air Force
- AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Jake Wortham twirled a five-hit shutout Friday, going the distance in BYU's 22-0 baseball victory over the Air Force Academy. Wortham evened his record at 3-3, retiring 14 straight before surrendering a double in the ninth inning as the Cougars snapped...
- Research articles 2008-04-26
- UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border
- HASBAYA, Lebanon AFP — UN peacekeepers in Lebanon began on Friday erecting a barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel to prevent breaches of the "Blue Line" aimed at keeping peace between the two neighbours. "UNIFIL soldiers began laying the barbed-wire fence in the area north of the border...
- Research articles 2008-04-10
- SAVE Act plays it safe
- AMERICANS KNOW our immigration policy is broken, and -- if they're paying attention -- should have figured out by now that Congress isn't equipped to fix it. The legislative branch is too polarized, and neither side of this debate has an appetite for give-and-take. As a result,...
- Research articles 2008-04-07
- France hoping for no Doumen gloom in National
- LONDON AFP — For a great horse racing nation France's record in the world's most famous steeplechase the Grand National is dreadful with just two wins in the 169 year history of the race. However, just as 12-times British champion jockey Tony McCoy keeps coming back to try and...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- U.S. Moves Forward With Massive Waiver of Environmental and Other Laws on Border Fence
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Tony Iallonardo of National Audubon Society, +1-202-861- 2242 x3042 NEW YORK, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by John Flicker, President, National Audubon Society: This is no April fools joke, unfortunately its real. The DHS decision to abandon U.S. laws to...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Israel says two Palestinians killed in Gaza
- GAZA CITY AFP — Two Palestinian militants were killed on Friday in separate gunfights with Israeli forces who carried out a brief ground incursion into southern Gaza, Israeli military sources said. One militant was killed in the northern Gaza Strip close to the security fence after a gunbattle broke...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Virtual Border Fencing Proves Virtually Useless
- The first 28 miles of "virtual fencing" being deployed along our Southern border have failed to meet expectations according to last month's congressional testimony by Richard Stana, director of Homeland security for the Government Accountability Office GAO. Stana's indictment of the hugely expensive, over-complicated and so far unworkable alternative to...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Controversial border fence hot issue in Texas primary
- BROWNSVILLE, Texas AFP — If it can be smuggled or dumped across the US-Mexico border, Ray Loop has probably seen it turn up on his South Texas farm: Bags of dope, Chinese immigrants, dead bodies, you name it. But Loop says he is facing his biggest threat ever, not...
- Research articles 2008-02-24
- Fenced-off trees drop their friends
- On Kenya's savanna, good fences make bad neighbors. Protecting acacia trees there from giraffes and other browsers sets off a chain reaction that ruins the partnership between trees and their bodyguard ants, says Todd Palmer of the University of Florida in Gainesville. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He first noticed something...
- Research articles 2008-01-26
- Israeli strikes in Gaza kill seven Palestinians
- GAZA CITY AFP — Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip killed seven Palestinians overnight, including three militants from the Hamas movement that has ruled the Gaza Strip since June, medics said on Wednesday. In the largest operation, a helicopter strike near Gaza City killed six militants and wounded...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza
- GAZA CITY AFP — Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians, one a civilian woman the other a militant, in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the army and Palestinian medical sources said. In the first incident soldiers opened fire on two Palestinian militants attempting to place explosives...
- Research articles 2007-12-30
- Omnibus Bill Includes Border Fence-Gutting Amendment
- Buried On Page 123 of Division E, Hutchison Amendment Removes Double-Layer Fence Requirement, Gives DHS Discretion MAXWELL, Iowa -- The omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill includes a little-known provision that guts the major provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This provision -- buried on page 123 of Division...
- Research articles 2007-12-17
- Berkeley oak grove scene of scuffle, arrests
- BERKELEY -- Two University of California, Berkeley, police officers were taken to the hospital early today after tree-sitters and their supporters at the campus oak grove tried to cut down a protective fence and tossed an unidentified liquid into their eyes, a campus spokesman said. The names...
- Research articles 2007-11-15
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