Word: antonios
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...From San Antonio to New York City's South Bronx, Kozol observes, inner-city schools are bleak fortresses with rotting classrooms and few amenities to inspire or motivate the young. A history teacher at East St. Louis' Martin Luther King Jr. High School, he notes, has 110 students in four classes, and only 26 books. Every year, says a teacher in a nearby school, "there's one more toilet that doesn't flush, one more drinking fountain that doesn't work, one more classroom without texts...
...breakthrough came in the mid-1980s at Dr. Ricardo Asch's laboratory at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Asch was trying to find a simpler way to do IVF, one that would not require the skills of an embryologist, when he hit upon the procedure he called gamete intra-Fallopian transfer, or GIFT. Rather than attempting fertilization in a Petri dish, he simply loaded the sperm and eggs (known to biologists as gametes) into a fine pipette and inserted them into the Fallopian tube, where he hoped they would take care of business by themselves. Not only...
They didn't know it then, but that was the start of one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of U.S. law enforcement: the capture and prosecution of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and "Maximum Leader" of his country. The Cessna's pilot, captured four months later, provided the first testimony linking the strongman to drug running. On Sept. 3, almost six years after that steamy chase, Noriega will walk into downtown Miami's federal courthouse to face a 12-count indictment. He is charged with taking $4.6 million in payoffs between...
...enduring one of the two main results of the subpoena epidemic, a chill on her work because confidential sources may not feel safely anonymous. Other reporters have faced worse. In recent months, Libby Averyt of Texas' Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
...also never be inside the Havana Club again: tickets can be bought only with dollars, and by law he is allowed to hold no more than $5 in U.S. currency, half the price of admission. A visiting tourist pays Juan Antonio's way, but he is worried his friends will label him a jinetero, or gigolo. He is also worried that the police will arrest him for consorting with foreigners, so he asks that his real name not be used. His paranoia is so pervasive that he finds it hard to believe he can wander the club floor without being...