Word: alonso
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...latest of a long line of Latin dancers, especially Cubans, who have joined top U.S. and European troupes, infusing them with a new warmth, sensuality and flair--what in Spanish is called chispa, or spark. There have been individual Hispanic stars before, like the great mid-century ballerinas Alicia Alonso of Cuba and Lupe Serrano of Chile. But now rosters from San Francisco to Houston to Cincinnati are studded with Latin names. Roughly half the principal dancers in the Boston and Miami City ballets are Latins. American Ballet Theatre (A.B.T.) features so many that one of its principals says...
...pioneer," he says. He set a high standard for other expatriates to follow. Identified mostly with princely, heroic roles in "tutu ballets" like La Bayadère and Don Quixote, he won Dance Magazine's 2004 award for contributions to dance, the first Cuban to do so since Alonso in 1958. The citation said, "He thrills audiences with his powerful leaps and glorious pirouettes, and breaks their hearts with his vulnerability...
...access to any gold-mine reserves the government might take away from idle concessionaires, foreign or Venezuelan. But many miners remain skeptical, especially since the cooperative funds are moving as slowly through Caracas as Crystallex's environmental permits. "We're always living with conflict and manipulation," says Humberto José Alonso, 37, an illegal miner for 18 years. "We hear promises from everyone, but we don't see results...
...Alonso's trial involves 2,000 children ages 1 to 4 taking a vaccine originally developed by GlaxoSmithKline. The vaccine reduced the risk of clinical (symptomatic) malaria 30%, new infections 45% and new episodes of severe, life-threatening malaria in those already infected an average of 58%. In the children less than 2 years old, it cut the risk of severe malaria 77%. The next step, says Alonso, is to test the vaccine in children younger than a year old. Then trials will be expanded into other countries. "If all goes well," he says, "we should have an approved vaccine...
That would be deeply satisfying to Alonso, 46, who, with his wife Clara, has been fighting malaria for nearly 20 years. "When you arrive as a young doctor in Africa," he says, "and you walk into a hospital, you're basically confronted with this massive disease that causes so much suffering and death. It is impossible not to become passionate about fighting it." Says the father of three: "Those children in the hospital are looking at us, telling us to put more effort, more resources, more brains, more research, to come out with solutions. They are a constant reminder...