Update on Central American Refugees and an Article About Cuban "Boat People"

Time Magazine puts a human face on the Central American refugee crisis:


http://time.com/3478351/border-crossing-kids-seek-asylum-in-america/?xid=newsletter-brief

As did the New York Times earlier this week:



http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/world/americas/a-smuggled-girls-odyssey-guatemala-migration-abduction.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#

Update:  This appeared today in the New York Times- This issue is really big this week:

In Rickety Boats, Cuban Migrants Again Flee to U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/us/sharp-rise-in-cuban-migration-stirs-worries-of-a-mass-exodus.html?_r=0

American views of the supernatural

A Lot of Americans Think the Spirit World Exists

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/05/have-you-been-possessed-by-spirits/361680/

Biologists Create Cells With 6 DNA Letters, Instead of Just 4

Very cool!  What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/synthetic-dna-cells/

The US-Mexico Border Increasingly Sees Refugees From Other Parts of the World

I was JUST talking about refugees last Thursday, but this has been in the news a while.  Here's the latest:

Hoping for Asylum, Migrants Strain U.S. Border

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html?_r=0







And here is a link to a recent series on the US-Mexico Border from National Public Radio
(I highly recommend the whole series, but especially the story about refugees, found here). 



http://www.npr.org/series/291397809/borderland-dispatches-from-the-u-s-mexico-boundary