Tribune Editorial: Keep the Rio Grande shelter open this winter

“Experiment with your own lives, damn it!”— Dr. Charles Dutton, in “The Andromeda Strain”In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez arrived on the shores of what is now Mexico in search of gold, territory and glory.According to legend, once ashore in Yucatan, Cortez gave the order to burn his ships as a way of ensuring that none in his party would seek to return to the relative security of Cuba, or even back to Spain, before they had fulfilled their mission.T