Offers an overview of the concept of border town/city and compares the historical evolution and dynamics of border towns in three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa. Prokkola, Eeva‐Kaisa. “Border Cities.” In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies Edited by...
Knowledge and practice of condom in preventing HIV/AIDS infection among commercial sex workers in three small towns of northwestern Ethiopia Background: HIV/AIDS is a serious problem in Ethiopia. Currently about 2.6 million people are living with the virus. The majority of the studies on HIV/AID...
US-Canada Border Towns Assess Damage From Devastating Floods People in the small city of Sumas, Washington, are assessing damage from flooding that hit an estimated three quarters of homes in the community near the Canadian border. Derailed railroad cars sit near flood-damaged tracks at a BNSF ...
the record levels of unlawful migration to the U.S. in recent years have strained resources in some American communities, from large interior cities like New York and Chicago to border towns like Eagle Pass and El Paso.
The optimistic talk of the 1990s regarding trade, investment, and economic integration in North America has given way to a rhetoric focused on security, particularly securing and controlling all points of entry to and exit from the United States. Cities and towns across the Southwestern border ...
As the May 23 end of "Title 42" policy restricting border asylums over coronavirus concerns draws near, U.S. border cities and towns are bracing for a widely expected surge in migration though the White House decision is currently being challenged in court and in Congress. ...
Why southern border towns are frustrated by the immigration debate Presidio, Texas, relies on hundreds of Mexican citizens who legally cross the border daily to work in restaurants or oil fields. Presidio's mayor believes the city would be in "serious trouble" if it was harder for them to ...
Last year and in the spring and summer of 2018 dozens of businesses were fined for illegally selling alcohol over state borders in Indiana towns such as Hammond, which forms part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Strangely neither Maura Possley, the Chicago-based state Attorney General; or the ...
Cities and Towns on this map: Virginia:Marion, Atkins, Rural Retreat, Wytheville, Galax, Hillsville, Independence, Stuart, Floyd, Meadows of Dan North Carolina:Jefferson, West Jeferson, Sparta, Dobson, White Plains, Mt Airy, Pilot Mountain, Danbury ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Dictionary Thesaurus curbstone A stone forming a curb or part of a curb. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ...