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BEST AVAILABLE COPY A Wednesday October 8, 2003 StarNet Health Ce Zieafrft rtps, health news and advice on coping with illness on StarNet's Health channel. www.azstamet.comhealth ARIZONA DAILY STAR SERVING TUCSON SINCE 1877 TOM MILLER'S CHOICES ON CK088JLT HQ Ms mm A SECTION DRY Hri A EM3m A Poland loves us Homesick for Tucson? The sights and sounds of the Old Pueblo are never far away. If you happen to be strolling near the Old Town of Krakow, Poland, in the next few weeks and long for the sights of Tucson, you are in luck. Lining the park for several blocks are the rectangular, more than 6-feet-tall aerial photos of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's "Earth from Above" exhibit. Amid the splendor, beauty and uniqueness he has captured is a pattern familiar to Tucso-nans.

Wingtip to wingtip, the formation of old B-52s at the Boneyard is unmistakable. The photo attracts a steady stream of folks reading a short history of the plane, the storage area and the Old Pueblo. And, if you long to hear a familiar voice, check out the BBC's international weather coverage. Daniel Corbett, whose proper British accent was heard on KGUN 9 not long ago, is now telling the whole world about climate matters via the BBC. The naked chefs Last week's mail included a press release on "The Chefs of Taos Cooking in the Raw," a 2004 calendar on the way from the Taos School of Cooking.

Apparently, 12 chefs bared "their most tempting recipes and most intimate selves." The calendar is said to be festive with "a style as vivacious, provocative and alluring as the soul of the Southwest itself." We just hope no one's bare soul backed into a hot stove during the photo sessions. Great Corral Reef Virtual travel has its drawbacks, and a radio commercial for a Tucson Internet provider proves the point. The commercial, heard on KNST (790-AM) the other morning, talks up traveling without ever leaving the comfort of your computer. You can see lots of places for free, the ad boasts, including Australia, the land of kangaroos and corral reefs. That's right, the announcer pronounces the word cor-RAL, accent on the second syllable, just like the enclosure for horses.

If the announcer had done some actual travel, he might have known to pronounce it COR-al, accent on the first syllable, as in coral reefs. But since we, too, have never been to Australia, we'll leave open the possibility that an atoll has been converted into an actual corral for sea horses. I Elaine Raines, Chyrl Lander and Tom Beal contributed. Drop a note to Dry Heat, Arizona Daily Star, Box 26S07, Tucson, AZ 85726, send e-mail to accentazstarnet.com or fax us at 573-4140. Tucsonan Tom Miller, at the border sculpture in front of the UA Student Union, will ffc: About one-quarter tfte ftooc 's 85 pieces are translations from Spanish.

Miller may compile another volume. The local author presents an anthology of 100 years of literature about the region that divides the U.S. and Mexico By Anthony Broadman ARIZONA DAILY STAR few hours in 1938 Laredo I lines written about the Mexi- border. "Life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped and you find yourself speechless among the money-changers," English novelist Graham Greene writes in "Another Mexico." Maybe Greene had a knack for observation; maybe it was the border. Either way, he left quickly for Monterrey.

The region's otherness makes it "easy to experiment" there, Tom Miller writes in an introduction to his "Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader" (University of Arizona Press, published last month. From Jack Kerouac to Los Pingiii-nos del Norte and Greene to Flaco Jimenez if they wrote about the border during the 20th century and Miller agreed with or laughed at them, they're probably here. "Writing on the Edge" showcases some of the finest border literature the best of which puts you at the Arizona fence or in Texas Big Bend Country, lost in the stretch of in-between. But in Miller's region, so conspicuously fractured that it's willingly given lebensraum of its own, stereotypes cross back and forth freely. Miller's selections by Beat writers paint the border as a fault dividing the lawless, free south and a puritanical, bland north.

M3 A Kerouac writes in a short piece about crossing south in Nogales: the moment you cross the little wire gate and you're in Mexico, you feel like you just sneaked out of school when you told the teacher you were sick and she told you you could go horned 2 o'clock in the afternoon." Maybe crossing into juvenile freedom wasn't a cliche yet in the 1950s; the Gringo-loose-on-the-border archetype survived the 1983 film "Losin' It," starring Tom Cruise, and lives on in Blake Shelton's current country hit, "Playboys of the Southwestern World" neither of which is mentioned specifically in Miller's book. In another Beat piece, Lawrence Fer-linghetti crosses at Mexicali and extrapolates from warning signs in the can Zone," a place of rules and orderly arti IF YOU College of Convocation I When: 3 Where: Auditorium How much: Talk, book Where: 2 When: Speedway, How much: GO Humanities Honors Address p.m. Oct. 10 Modern Languages on UA campus Free signing p.m. Oct.

11 Reader's Oasis, 3400 E. No. 114 Free meeting." The strip goes on to describe "el terror en la frontera" as the Klansmen, day and night, carry out their "human hunt" of illegal entrants. The other comic, from "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" strip, has three hippie-types entering Mexico, only to have their trip halted by bribes and bureaucracy. Even in the more enlightened examples of literature about 'Merica, as Sandra Cisneros' "Mericans" might call it, the border is less friendly to Mexicans.

As Miller writes in his introduction, "The zona fron-teriza is not a positive totem in Mexican literature." It's more like a black cat. Or aces and eights. Death confronts crossers in Luis Spota's "Murieron a mitaddelrio" (They Died in the Middle of the River). Women on the way north to a funeral in Nogales find a dead boy stuffed with opium on a bus in "The Child" by Alberto Al-varo Rios. In an excerpt from Eugene Nelson's "Bracero," workers find a borderland purgatorio of men waiting to be summoned to harvest northern fields.

The lucky ones, the ones who get picked to work, go forward "like forgotten souls belatedly summoned to Paradise." SEE MILLER E2 Commentary our hero's face. First, puzzlement, then amusement. And, finally, the sinking horror that comes with this realization: I have married the stupidest woman on Earth. "You know when you Monday been picked season. Only first season fast turning valuable fice: "Do not pee on the wrong side of the fence.

Show your dog tags. Borders must be maintained! An insane fluidity deracination surely would prevail without them. Two comic strips show perhaps the most cliched (but eerily accurate) viewpoints from both sides of the border. One frame opens with a burning cross, Klansmen and the Spanish text, "Meanwhile, the Ku Klux Klan was holding an urgent Aaron J. Latham Staff discuss the new book Friday and Saturday.

WRITINGS DATE BACK TO '60s Vague lines divide baseball from Cuba from border literature on Tom Miller's bookshelves. His computer plays a CD of a cowboy crooner singing "Not Fade Away" over a merengue beat. There's a whiff, albeit faint, of anarchy in his book-cataloging system as the 56-year-old Tucson writer hunts and pecks for the title he wants. Miller started out in the late 1960s and early 1970s writing in the underground antiwar press. His early work carries titles like, "we are all reporters in the courts of amerika" (about being subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating antiwar activities), Edgar Hoover Sleeps with a Night Light: Former Valet Reveals FBI Chief's Secret Hangups," and "Oh Lord, won't you buy me Hitler's Mercedes (about the auction of two automobiles once owned by Adolf Hitler).

Since then, Miller has written books about Arizona, assassination, Texas dining, the border, Panama hats, Cuba and offbeat travel in the Southwest. A just-published book of border photographs by Alex Webb, "Crossings," includes an essay by Miller. Last month, Miller had an article in The New York Times about losing his sense of taste; his work has appeared in Smithsonian, Rolling Stone and Life, among other outlets. These and other works will be available to researchers in March when Miller's archives open at the UA Library, Special Collections. The collection, according to archivist Shan Sutton, will be valuable to scholars studying Miller or any of the myriad subjects Miller has researched "La Bamba," Jose Marti and Jack Ruby among them.

The collection spans 40 linear feet of shelf space and contains almost everything Miller has penned. to her am 108 our young century: It's both a study in our modern celebrity obsessions and a scathing attack on the celebrities who fuel them. Nick and Jessica "I'm afraid THI FAR From TJie Complete SIDE by GARY LARSON For Side, available in bookstores October 2 1 Original release dote- 71681 At least vouVe not married that the show has up for a second seven episodes into its now, the show is into the most cultural document of i if I'. A 1981 Inc All R.ghh Reserved you've got cows, Mr. Farnsworth." i kTTv 'Newlyweds' can make yon glad you re not a star By Christopher Kelly FORT'WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM The handsome young man stands with his beautiful new bride, enacting that age-old marital ritual the recounting of his day's events.

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