21.   As a train rattles from France into Germany, border guards patrol its corridors, hunting for illegal refugees.

22.   At the beginning of the Chechen war last year Georgia vehemently rejected a Russian demand to station border guards on the Georgian side of the Chechen border.

23.   At official crossings from Poland and the Czech Republic, German border guards complain that they lack the staff to search every vehicle for stowaways.

24.   At the Uganda-Kenya border, he befriended a pastor who put him on a midnight bus and bribed a border guard to gain safe passage.

25.   Both the Macedonian and Serbian border guards have almost totally closed the border, only allowing the occasional carload of refugees through.

26.   A few hundred border guards may be allowed to return once Kosovo is at peace.

27.   After he raised the suspicions of border guards, his stomach was X-rayed, revealing the pellets, officers said.

28.   Airports and border guards have stepped up security measures.

29.   Again, democracy has proven far messier than the old days of Soviet border guards.

30.   Almost no ethnic Albanians coming from Kosovo have passports or other identifying papers, and registration with exhausted border guards has been haphazard at best.