Word: ana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ana on the Avenue Galiano, a shopping street in downtown Havana, where she was gazing longingly into a store selling plastic shoes for 20 pesos (15 cents). They are rationed, and it is not her year to buy new ones. Ana was eager to talk, but not in public, where the government's ever present watchers could see. Come to my home, she said, and you will see how terrible life is here...
...Ana is 24, separated from her husband, and does not trust her neighbors. Inside, she shows us her shabby living room, the dim bedroom she shares with her son, a rudimentary bathroom and a dank kitchen equipped with a leaky sink, hot plate and ancient refrigerator. Its contents: beans, rice and a frozen three-month-old piece of chicken that she is saving for two-year-old Rolando. "The state gives you six pounds of rice a month, but we eat that in three ; days," she says. When her rations ran out the week before, she sold her grandmother...
Miami Beach, Fla., Santa Ana, Calif. 51% each...
...Santa Ana winds, flames engulfed the hills of Malibu last week, killing three people and destroying 323 homes. Fire officials suspect the blaze was set by arsonists. Many movie stars have homes in Malibu, but only Sean Penn's and Ali McGraw's suffered appreciable damage...
...house, and not a fire fighter in sight. "It's gonna go," he mutters. His eyes are on the ground, dejected, but his hair dances in the fierce wind, and shadows flicker across his face. Suddenly he spies the cat -- a black beauty named, of all things, Santa Ana Winds -- and stuffs her in a small cage. The animal is frightened, moaning. Miller is not much better. He begins to cry. "I don't know what to do now," he says to a reporter. "Can you give me a ride back...