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The victims — mostly Central Americans — were kidnapped from buses headed to Mexican cities abutting Texas.

The IAA identified the jugs as Canaanite, a people who resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean.

“That’s going to be devastating for the local ecosystem. It’s going to present fire risk, with dead trees abutting developments. It’s going to be very expensive to remediate.”

In the late 1970s, Fred Pressman covered an alley abutting their property on the 17th Street side with a skylight and turned it over to his wife to fill with home goods.

Most big cities are quilted this way, with working class squares abutting middle- and upper-class areas.