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  • FUTURES

Border crossing

A lesson in history.
By
  1. S. R. Algernon

    1. S. R. Algernon studied fiction writing and biology, among other things, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently lives in Michigan.

Artistic image of a baseball at the heart of a swirling vortex

Illustration by Jacey

Two wooden sawhorses blocked the road beside a crumbling adobe mission. A car idled on the dirt beside them, sporting chrome, tailfins and a star like a sheriff’s badge on the door.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03174-3

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