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The Picture Show
12:34 pm
Tue July 24, 2012

The Colorful Days Of Life On The Border

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Credit Bruce Berman
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Hearts and Flowers, 1992. Deep in the heart of Juarez. Summer. It's hot and its alive in Juarez. In those days. Now, a city that has just lived through a war. What remains is yet to be determined.
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Dignified Man, 2006. This "viejo" (old one) walks on this street every evening. 6th and El Paso St. This is the first street in the U.S. after crossing from Juarez into downtown El Paso. In essence, this is the first block of America (or the last, depending on which direction you're going).
Credit Bruce Berman
Candyman in El Panteon. The Panteon of Juarez (the municipal cemetery) on the Day of the Dead, 1994. The celebration is still honored, but there have been so many funerals in Juarez during the cartel war years that people are closer to death than is comfortable.
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Segundo Barrio, El Paso, Texas, 2005. Many stores have come and gone in this building through the years. The residents of the Segundo Barrio community have maintained it on their own initiative, for decades, as far back as anyone can remember.
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Martin at his home in Lomas de Poleo (northwest Juarez). Martin is one of the last residents of a little agriculture community, which has gone from 200 families to 12.
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Sisters at the Border, 2007. Nuns meet at the border of Anapra, N.M. (left), and Barrio Anapra, Juarez. The nuns in Mexico cannot cross for various reasons — except on the day of a Mass for immigrants, held every November in the U.S.
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River Jump in the River with Two Names, 1989. Kids cool off in the river with two names — Rio Grande on the U.S. side, and Rio Bravo in Mexico.
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Santa Claus and his reindeer in the Plaza de Juarez, Christmas Eve, 2003
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Las Sierras de Juarez, 2006. A mother and daughter in the Plaza de Juarez in front of a photographer's backdrop.
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A man and his family in northeast Juarez, 2008
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The Virgin's Car Wash, 2005. The Virgin de Guadalupe on an unfinished car wash in El Paso.
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Wary girl in a GMC truck, downtown El Paso, 1980
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Wedding Day in El Segundo Barrio, 1984. This is the oldest neighborhood of El Paso, sitting right on the border with Mexico, traditionally a first step for immigrants to the U.S. In effect, it has acted for Mexican residents as New York City's Lower East Side did for generations of migrants who had landed at Ellis Island.
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Woman in an assembly plant in Juarez (known as a maquila), 1999.
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By Claire O'Neill

Originally published on Tue July 24, 2012 2:28 pm

Editor's note: This is another one of those stories that came to me fortuitously by email. Bruce Berman teaches photography in Las Cruces, N.M., and, like many photography instructors, he has a huge archive of his own. This is just a small selection of his color photographs documenting life in the border town of El Paso, Texas.

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The Two-Way
12:26 pm
Tue July 24, 2012

Feel-Good Photo: Gabrielle Giffords Atop A Mountain In France

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Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (center) and her husband Mark Kelly (right), at the peak of Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps on Monday. Behind them is mountain guide Vincent Lameyre.
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After four days of sadly serious news about what happened in Aurora, Colo., here's a photo that may lift your heart.

Reuters explains that former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., rode a two-stage cable car on Monday to the peak of Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps. That's 12,605-feet above sea level.

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The Two-Way
12:24 pm
Tue July 24, 2012

Peg Perego Recalls 223,000 Strollers Due To Strangulation Risk

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The models of strollers being recalled.
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Originally published on Tue July 24, 2012 1:16 pm

One child strangled to death and another nearly strangled when their heads were caught between the tray and the seat bottom of their Peg Perego strollers. The Italian company is now issuing a recall for 223,000 strollers that were sold in the United States from Jan. of 2004 and Sept. 2007 and

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says:

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The Two-Way
12:10 pm
Tue July 24, 2012

Wal-Mart Urgest Retailers To Reject $6 Billion Settlement With Visa, MasterCard

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A van covered by a mural sits parked outside a Walt-Mart Super Center in Mexico City.
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By Eyder Peralta

Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, says its peers should reject the $6 billion settlement reached over fees charged on credit card purchases.

As we reported, Visa and MasterCard agreed to pay more than $6 billion to settle complaints from retailers that it prohibited them from imposing surcharges on customers using those cards. Those complaints have existed for years.

The AP reports:

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Deceptive Cadence
11:26 am
Tue July 24, 2012

Alexei Lubimov's Debussy: Less Dreamy, More Dynamic

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Claude Achille Debussy in a 1909 portrait.
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Originally published on Thu July 26, 2012 5:10 pm

With the sesquicentennial of Claude Debussy's birth coming up fast on Aug. 22, you'd think there would be a small blizzard of new Debussy releases. This year, not so much; maybe it's a sign of the economic times and industry reality that there's no great rush to add the zillionth recording of such incredibly loved repertoire to the catalog. But every so often, a project comes along that demands a revisiting of music you think you know inside and out. This two-disc set of Debussy headed by Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov is just such a release.

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