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...Most definitely not, has been the answer of many bullfighting insiders ever since Spanish Culture Minister César Antonio Molina announced on Feb. 27 that this year's prestigious Fine Arts medal for bullfighting would go to Francisco Rivera Ordóñez. The 35-year-old matador has killed more than 2,000 bulls, but because of both his family ties - he descends from Spain's most important bullfighting dynasty and was briefly married to the Duchess of Alba's daughter - and his abundant good looks, Rivera is as well-known for his presence in the gossip rags...
...teammate Todd Obergoenner, who shot a formiddable 65 on the day.“I think everyone just got used to the course,” Pollak said. “And they moved a few tees a little bit.”But for Pollak, native of San Antonio, Texas, it was more than just a matter of getting used to the course, nor a gracious rearrangement of tees that helped him succeed.“I think I’m a lot quicker to pick up my game after a long break than some of the other...
Though advances have been made in the long suffering effort to contain international drug use and production, a parallel surge in drug-related organized crime has popped up as a unfortunate and unintended consequence. Antonio Maria Costa, Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, addresses this nasty side effect in a paper slated for delivery at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on March 11th. Costa urges countries to "look at drug control as a series of inter-related factors where each intervention has an impact on others," emphasizing the need to incorporate innovative...
...were running out of options, Smith told us there was one more avenue to try. Bexar County - where San Antonio is located and an estimated 30% of people under 65 do not have health coverage - has a health-care program for the uninsured that is far more generous than most in Texas and practically unique in the country. Rather than continuing to wait for the uninsured to show up in its emergency rooms, in 1997 the Bexar County hospital district established a system called CareLink for those who make 200% of the poverty line or less. (In his current...
...negotiating prices with health-care providers and then billing clients on a sliding scale according to their income. (Pat's CareLink bills run around $40 a month.) And it puts a heavy emphasis on preventive care; on Pat's first examination at an austere CareLink clinic in northwestern San Antonio, he got tetanus and flu shots as part of the deal. Another stroke of good fortune: Pat's kidney doctor, Smolens, is a participating specialist with CareLink...