So marijuana tends to cross the border far from official ports of entry.
The southern border, far from being "unsecured," is in better shape than it has been for years — better managed and less porous.
The changes have helped bring an astounding shift in residents' attitudes toward the border: far from seeing it as a threat, more are embracing it as a potential economic engine for the region.
On this point, at least, the prosecution and the defense agree: On the afternoon of Sept. 30, 1996, Bo Gritz, a former Green Beret commando and a leader of the far-right militia movement, was sitting in a car in the parking lot of McAlister Middle School in Suffield, Conn., a small town on the Massachusetts border far from his favorite stamping grounds in the Idaho hills.
Last week, at the leading European particle physics laboratory, CERN, an institution straddling the French-Swiss border far from the superhot center of American politics but well within its sphere of influence, the question arose: is it more important to determine who the next American president will be or to discover why all matter in the universe has mass, rather than weighing nothing?
During the last few years Cairn has quietly built up a 14,000-square-mile block of properties that's the size of Belgium and Cyprus put together on both sides of Nepal's border, far from Rajasthan.
Though the island, Duwaima, is an insignificant dot few Yemenis have heard of it the incident is a reminder that several of modern Arabia's borders are far from fixed.A handful of ancient border grievances disturb the region's mainly prosperous calm.
Turabi was born in Kassala, an eastern province that borders Eritrea, far from the centre of Sudanese affairs.
Border security also is critical to McCain, and other Republicans, who contend that some areas along the border are far from secure.
Political intrigue along this border is far from exhausted.
