Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.

FORBES: Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border

The stage play (and movie) that best captures the blurred border between honest b.s. and flat-out lies is The Music Man.

FORBES: Dark Side of American Optimism

Meanwhile the Israeli army, caught flat-footed both on the Golan Heights and on the border with Lebanon, will have to shore up the border, at least in the north, to make it physically impassable.

ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

Three-foot fronds of dill swayed back and forth, their brimming umbels of flat seeds spilling everywhere, and the lemon balm crept across the brick border when no one was looking.

NPR: Garden in a Glass: Herbal Teas, Lavender Martinis