EL PASO, Texas — The young migrants often arrived at night. They were teenagers from Central and South America, brought by border agents to the Tornillo Detention Facility and led to rows of metal bunk beds in military tents ringed by barbed wire. Human touch, even a simple hug, was rare inside this secured temporary city, where nearly 3,000 unaccompanied minors at a time were confined between June 2018 and January 2019. In this harsh environment, the Chihuahuan Desert, imagination and faith ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Like many town-and-gown cities, New Haven is a community of parallel narratives. There is the storied Elm City of Yale University, a place of carillon bell towers, leaded glass windows and lush quadrangles behind iron gates.
Inside, a translucent bioplastic wall with cloudlike swirls — yes, also 3D printed — changed colors on demand as Rael, with a clicker, shifted the hues from pink to green to purple, bathing the interior in otherworldly light.