PERSISTENT CHALLENGE: A tower on the U.S. side of the border fence in Nogales, Ariz., contains cameras and other sensors to detect fence crossing.
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Buggy border

Technology |  Border Patrol sensors are bedeviled by aging hardware and false alarms

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Heather has two mommies
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Heather has two mommies

Science |  A proposed fertility technique would create children with genes from three parents

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/heather_has_two_mommies]

Arizona Rep. John Kavanagh

Restroom roulette in Arizona

Law |  On Wednesday an Arizona House panel approved a bill that would allow business owners to stop transgender people from using restrooms other than those…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/restroom_roulette_in_arizona]

MAN AND MACHINE: A workman monitors a robotic ladle moving molten zinc at ArcelorMittal Steel’s hot dip galvanizing line in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio.
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Automatic employment

Business |  Manufacturers say robots and automation, far from hurting workers, can save American jobs in the face of global competition

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Stop, frisk, and scroll
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Stop, frisk, and scroll

Technology |  Police in some jurisdictions have the right to search a suspect’s cellphone during an arrest

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/stop_frisk_and_scroll]

FLOAT ON: A Palestinian woman swimming in the Dead Sea.

Raising the Dead Sea

Science |  Will an ambitious water project revive a sinking salty sea?

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/raising_the_dead_sea]

Rep. Bette Grande, a Republican who introduced both pro-life bills, testifies before the House Human Services Committee in Bismarck, N.D.

Saved by a heartbeat

Abortion |  With little debate, the North Dakota Senate passed the strictest abortion ban in the nation Friday. The legislation, which now awaits Republican Gov. Jack…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/saved_by_a_heartbeat]

Ill treatment
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Ill treatment

Science |  For troubled children, some hospitals offer to suppress gender

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/ill_treatment]

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Bad connections

Technology |  One mobile service provider made it big thanks to government handouts

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/bad_connections]

Otis Moss III (left) announces his support of gay 'marriage' in September, as Al Sharpton looks on.

Gay ‘marriage’ in Illinois is in state House’s hands

Marriage |  In a 6-5 vote late Tuesday night, an Illinois House committee approved a bill that would make “marriage” between two men or two women legal in the Land of…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/02/gay_marriage_in_illinois_is_in_state_house_s_hands]

A criminal investigator holds a cotton swab and a glass tube for collecting a DNA sample.

Swabbing suspects

Supreme Court |  The high court hears a challenge to law enforcement DNA collection as a means to solve past crimes

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/02/swabbing_suspects]

Wild eye
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Wild eye

Technology |  Drones take to the skies to hunt illegal hunters

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/02/wild_eye]

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