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Laundering drug cartel funds fattens the investments and operations of private businesses, the pocketbooks of government officials at all levels, at same as it costs countries – Mexico for instance – large portions of their GDP.

Squinting, there’s a blurred drawing of an ample stone-sided, tile-roofed house. Deciphering faded words, reassembling insect chewed, time-weakened pages, bits of history unfurl.

Headline-harvesting speculative assertions that humans start aging long before many really believe they’re “mature” are not new.  But now three researchers from Canada’s Simon Fraser University, two of them  doctoral students, plus an associate professor, have published research findings – “Over the Hill at 24” – that they say proves those earlier assertions. 

Tomorrow much of the world celebrates the day that Jesus became Christ.

Tomorrow is Domingo de Ramas, Palm Sunday, marking Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

Once the chill winds of November died down, 16-year-old Concha Rosales – like all campo females – shed her huaraches to go barefoot.  Concha used her home-made huaraches only when she strapped on spurs to go into the cerro aboard a dun-colored gelding, tending to livestock or fixing fence – something few Mexican women did at that time.