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Either way, even if the world outside Latin America might view the practice as a 21st-century version of a 19th-century evil, making children part of a prison's population has become an integral part of the region's corrections culture. "Kids learn to adapt," says Estensorro. "I believe they really are better off here...
...19th century, American railroads were the engine of rapid industrialization and growth, bringing new Americans and their attendant prosperity to far-off corners of the then-unsettled country. American passenger trains carried millions of new soldiers to their training depots and their ports of call during the two World Wars, and, until the expansion of the interstate highway system in the 1950s, rail travel remained the only reliable and affordable method for traversing the country. But, since then, American passenger rail has steadily declined in both prestige and ridership; in 1971, the federal government effectively bought out the dying industry...
...many maps at live auctions and on Ebay, forming the seed for what would eventually be his award-winning collection. “The maps showed how the city was depicted in different ways over time,” said Leskov, whose maps spanned from the 15th to the 19th century. Leskov was awarded $2,000 and will showcase his collection in Lamont Library. Taking second place and a $1,000 prize was Zimmerman, a Tennessee Valley native who entered his collection of books by authors such as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren, writers who were either wrote about...
...Nearby, the 29 rooms at the Hotel de la Opera, www.hotelopera.com.co, feature 14-ft. (4 m) ceilings and décor befitting the hotel's origins in a pair of adjoining 19th century townhouses. In its vicinity are the Teatro Colon, tel: (57-1) 284 7420 - a gold-encrusted, neo-Italianate 135-year-old performance venue that is home to the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra - and Artesanias de Colombia, www.artesaniasdecolombia.com.co, a government-sponsored showcase for handmade masks, pottery, jewels, carpets and other Colombian handiwork...
...carry the same swagger into this weekend's Americas summit in Port of Spain, Trinidad? At first glance, his decade-old Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America's 19th century independence hero, Simón Bolívar) seems as potent as it was four years ago. Chávez, still Venezuela's most popular political figure, just won a referendum that will let him run for re-election as long as he wants. His small but radical leftist bloc of Latin American nations (including Bolivia and Nicaragua) has helped blunt U.S. hegemony and ushered non-hemispheric allies like Russia...