Word: antonio
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DIED. MIGUEL TORGA, 87, Portugal's most admired contemporary writer; in Coimbra. A practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against...
...have no explicit proof that bribes were taken because nobody is stupid enough to write a receipt for a bribe." --Antonio Cartana, a city ombudsperson of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on an investigation of alleged bribes to municipal inspectors, as quoted in The New York Times...
...They use a lot of scientific terminology and give a scientific feel to the movie," said Ian Dell'Antonio, a third-year graduate student in astronomy. "The movie just wouldn't fly if they had to stick to scientific fact. It would be a lot more dull...
Before long, though, they may have a better way to make a baby. This week, Alan Trounson, an IVF pioneer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will tell the American Fertility Society meeting in San Antonio, Texas, that he and his colleagues have devised an alternate approach that is much cheaper, simpler and easier on the mother. It removes the need for fertility drugs and daily monitoring. "There is nothing terribly complicated about ((the procedure))," Trounson claims, "so it will spread like a brush fire because the patients want...
...failed to make the Tex-Anns drill team, she stumbled across a primitive form of journalism -- yearbook writing ("I needed something to do in fifth period"). She went on to get a journalism degree at the University of Texas in Austin, then worked for two years on the San Antonio Light. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1981, she joined the Los Angeles Times, for which she covered everything from the oil industry to the Iran-contra affair to Bob Kerrey's 1992 campaign for the presidency. She interrupted her campaign stint to have Nicholas, now 2, with husband...