Word: alongers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Negros Occidental province of the southern Philippines, children with flowers carried a small white coffin along a country road leading through sugar-cane fields. The casket contained the body of Juan Latorgo. His grieving mother, Estrellita Latorgo, 21, says that she took her son first to the local hospital and then to a witch doctor. Neither could arrest the symptoms of malnutrition that killed Juan, at the age of seven months...
...Zamboanga City, a building contractor complains that the illicit kickbacks he is forced to pay to obtain government contracts have jumped to 20%. Nowadays, he adds, even "someone from the Government Auditor's Department [supposedly an anticorruption watchdog agency] comes along and demands his own payoff to keep quiet...
Venda is the third member of that "constellation" of black states envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd as the keystone to the edifice of apartheid. Enacted into law in 1959, the homelands plan calls for the establishment of ten purportedly independent black states divided along tribal lines and scattered across South Africa. When complete, the scheme would crowd all of the blacks, who make up more than 80% of the South African population, onto a mere 15% of the land. The rest of the country, including most of its mineral wealth and all of its industrial regions, would...
...course, young Americans may prosper without ever solving that particular problem, provided they never have to print up enough tickets to admit 671 people to exactly 402 rock concerts. But the problem makes a point for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nonprofit organization, which included it, along with hundreds of others, in the latest N.A.E.P. survey of the nation's math skills, released last week. The point: as measured by tests given to a sampling of 71,000 U.S. students, math competence has declined in the past five years. The decline is notable among older pupils: scores...
With Pavarotti this is a conscious intention. He senses his voice traveling along a separate thread to each member of the audience, and he depends desperately on the response that returns along that thread. "Applause is our oxygen." he says, and the more vociferous, even hysterical, the better. He feels that his voice blossoms before a 'hot" audience. When he began giving concerts and recitals, however, the intimacy with the audience and the absence of operatic costumes caused him to lose concentration. Now he sings to an imaginary listener, whom he pictures in the center of the balcony, in order...