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csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Riley Robinson
Driving along the Vermont-Quebec border, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Paul Allen keeps a watchful eye on passing cars. That maroon Toyota Tacoma is familiar. The blue Ford F-150, too. “If you’ve worked this area long enough, you know who should be here, who shouldn’t be here,” says the forest-green-clad agent. Mr. Allen and other agents seek immigrants crossing illegally from Canada, working in woods and lakes along the longest land border in the world.
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csmonitor.com | Stephanie Hanes |Riley Robinson
Dwight Baugher’s sun-dappled orchard is an hour’s drive and a world away from the congestion of northern Virginia, where tar-ribboned exit ramps and windowless warehouses make up what is known as “Data Center Alley.” There, in that concrete expanse, Data Center Alley houses what is casually referred to as “the cloud,” which isn’t a cloud at all, but regimented rows of interconnected computer servers, miles of fiber-optic cables, and a massive network of cooling pipes – the physical backbone...
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csmonitor.com | Jingnan Peng |Mackenzie Farkus |Riley Robinson
Sitting on a bench next to his friend Roosevelt Adams, 81-year-old Michael Palumbaro says he is filled with gratitude. “I never thought that I would become a senior,” he says. “Because I tested HIV positive in 1987, when people were dying left and right.”Mr. Palumbaro also never imagined that in his 70s, he would become one of the first residents of John C. Anderson Apartments (JCAA). Opened in 2014, the building is America’s first senior affordable housing complex marketed as LGBTQ-friendly.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Riley Robinson
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Riley Robinson |Whitney Eulich
Mexico City might be best known as a modern megalopolis, bustling with millions of residents, but visitors don’t have to go far to glimpse its ancient past. In the south sits a network of human-made waterways, the remains of a vast transit system used by the Aztecs to move people and products like food around their empire. Today, the canals in the borough of Xochimilco are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
everand.com | Riley Robinson
Mexico City might be best known as a modern megalopolis, bustling with millions of residents, but visitors don’t have to go far to glimpse its ancient past. In
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Richard Mertens |Riley Robinson
Last year, Lisa Lujano, a longtime member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 54, found herself in very unfamiliar company. She had been tasked to build stairs in one section of the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. When she showed up for work, she discovered she would be part of a crew of five, all women. “I don’t know how it came about,” Ms. Lujano says. “I don’t know if it was good intentions or bad intentions – keep all the women together.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Francine Kiefer |Riley Robinson
In the battleground state of Arizona, where the divisive issue of immigration is a top voter concern, rancher Jim Chilton and volunteer Gail Kocourek are political opposites. He’s for Donald Trump. She backs Kamala Harris. He’s for a border wall. She’s against it. Yet they have found a way to partner on the polarizing subject of border security by working to prevent the deaths of border crossers, thousands of whom traverse Mr. Chilton’s desert ranch. The two are also friends.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Richard Mertens |Riley Robinson
Jeremy Turner loves trees, especially an old red pine that stands in the forest a few hundred yards from his house. There, each year, black bears stop to make their mark. They rub their shoulders against it. They scratch its bark with their long claws. On a recent spring morning and in the absence of bears, Mr. Turner demonstrates. He shimmies like an Ursus americanus rubbing its back against a tree while a handful of visitors look on in fascination.
