1.   Many people cross the border illegally in search of work.

2.   Thousands of years ago, people crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.

3.   When people do cross the threshold of the church, do we make it easy for them to take that step?

4.   Heavy vehicles, slowing down to allow people to cross, are often overtaken by cars, unaware of the crossing and the reason for the slowing heavy vehicle.

5.   And people cross the border.

6.   And long-held axioms about when, where and how people first crossed from Asia to America are undergoing a thorough rethinking.

7.   At least a half-million people have crossed the border into Zaire on foot in the last three days.

8.   But people are still crossing, maybe not as many as before.

9.   But there is another reason why fewer people are crossing, said Frank D. Bean, a demographer at the University of California at Irvine.

10.   Fewer people are crossing the border in the areas where the agency has stepped up its patrols.