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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

As for Canada, Finding the Border Is a Bit of a Trick (WSJ)

From The Wall Street Journal:

By Barry Newman

BEEBE PLAIN, Vt. -- Kyle Hipsley, a chain-smoking 52-year-old Iowan, has spent 20 summers looking for America. More often than not, he has trouble finding it.

"The boundary's in those bushes," Mr. Hipsley said one morning, driving his rented Dodge along a line of scrub just to the south of the border with Canada. "That's got to be cleared." A mile later, he said, "The boundary's out there in that swamp. Monument's buried in the bog. Been that way for years."

From the Beaufort Sea in Alaska to Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine, Mr. Hipsley sees a lot of work to ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118401498675261246-search.html?KEYWORDS=canada&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month

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