We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. “It's given us a new perspective on this very complicated and very vital system.”Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Alex Young, associate director for science in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Live Science. "Once we were able to put satellites into space we were able to see the extent of cloud cover, landmasses, bodies of water,” C. But only when humankind gained the ability to look down on Earth from space could it see this phenomenon more clearly. Humans have been creating structures for thousands of years to observe the changing positions of the sun and the sky in relationship to the seasons. It’s unclear precisely when ancient civilizations became aware of this phenomenon. Like the year's second equinox, in September, the shift in sunlight accompanies a shift in seasons. Eastern time with the March equinox, the annual celestial alignment between the Earth and the sun. The astronomical start of spring began on Monday morning at 6:28 a.m. Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere. But some of these things, there’s a sense that it’s inhumane and going way too far.” “You hear a lot about the need for more enforcement – about immigrants coming to America the ‘right’ way. What the people of Eagle Pass want is efficiency, not cruelty – especially cruelty that doesn’t seem to be deterring migrants.“It’s complicated,” Henry says. As other reports from Eagle Pass have indicated, he sees the initial enthusiasm for Operation Lone Star waning. Some are turning to the Republican Party because of it. Henry heard stories of houses broken into and hospitals unable to help citizens because they were full from the influx of border crossings.Yet he also saw evidence of limits to the “get tough” approach. Many in the area, including Latinos, want the government to take a tough stand. He tells me he saw echoes of what our Story Hinckley found at a different part of the border a year ago. On Wednesday, Governor Abbott vowed on social media to reinstall razor wire he said was cut by the federally run Border Patrol. The Monitor’s Henry Gass was there last week, and he’s working on a story for next week. Two-year-old Operation Lone Star has brought in state law enforcement and taken controversial measures, such as putting buoys tipped with saw blades in the Rio Grande. Illegal border crossings in the area are growing dramatically, and Texas’ Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has responded aggressively. Some 4,000 unauthorized immigrants had crossed the Rio Grande into his city in the previous two days.Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr.’s declaration is the culmination of a crisis building for more than a year. The mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, was finally left with no option but to sign an emergency declaration Wednesday.
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