Word: arroyo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer sitting across from chess champion Garry Kasparov is instructed to play, and its screen reads, ''I'd rather not,'' then I'll start worrying about whether the next person I meet is a Terminator. Independent thought is the advantage we humans (currently) have over ''thinking'' machines. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, California Via E-mail...
...some months before Sampedro and Jorge Arroyo, his pro bono lawyer, learn whether Strasbourg will hear their plea, the first such to be put to the commission. Says Sampedro: ``Death is a taboo in our society. But for a psychologically mature person, voluntary death, when it is to bring to an end an incurable or intolerable suffering, is rational.'' A poem he has written called ``Why Die?'' answers itself in the first line: ``Porque el sueno se ha vuelto pesadilla'' (Because the dream has become a nightmare...
...seize dynastic power and procure royal captives for very public and ornate executions. But after 761, he notes, "wars led to wholesale destruction of property and people, reflecting a breakdown of social order comparable to modern Somalia." In that year the king and warriors of nearby Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra besieged Dos Pilas. Says Demarest: "They defeated the king of Dos Pilas and probably dragged him back to Tamarindito to sacrifice him." The reason for the abrupt change in the Maya's battleground behavior, he suspects, was that the ruling elite had grown large enough to produce intense rivalries...
BROUGHT TO THE STATES AS A TEENAGER FROM HIS native Puerto Rico, Domingo Arroyo quickly learned that America is not always the promised land. With his mother Ramona and younger brother Ramon, he grew up in a grim housing project in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and struggled with studies in high school. He saw military service as the path to a better life and seemed well on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo, 21 -- who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm -- pulled...
...Arroyo's death dramatized the continuing violence in Somalia. Much of it was directed against U.S. forces under orders to confiscate numerous arms caches controlled by Somali warlords, but others are caught in the middle. The International Red Cross suspended operations after one of its officials was killed by robbers in Bardera. At week's end leaders of 14 feuding Somali factions meeting in Ethiopia agreed to a cease-fire at home. But word of the stand-down had still not reached Mogadishu, where gunfire continued to sound routinely. At least 100,000 Somalis still carry weapons...