Word: arroyos
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Dire political predictions are standard fare in the Philippines, which has experienced more than 10 coup attempts and two popular uprisings in the last two decades. But last week, rumblings that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo might be overthrown by a coup or even another People Power revolt reached alarming levels. In a public statement, three Roman Catholic bishops warned the President early last week that "time is running out" and said that if there isn't an immediate revamp of the country's government, "no force on earth can ever stop the coming deluge of change." These exhortations for change...
...bunch of hardworking lunch-pail teammates. The Sox are cartoon characters and superheroes. Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling: larger than life in personality and, in Curt's case, with an ego to match. Damon's everyone's darling. Varitek is like a Cooperstown statue of "Catcher" and, now, "Captain" too. Arroyo, who starred as a hard-rock singer at Peter Gammons' annual charity fundraiser in Boston in January-Arroyo and his cornrows, and now he's got a CD of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots covers coming out in July. Theo himself was on guitar that night: a Yalie GM rock...
...head have been shaped differently from what was previously thought? (Unresolved: only a few fragments of the skull have been recovered.) Each question sent the paleontologists back to examine the fossilized remnants of the giant pterosaur, which were discovered in 1971 scattered over a half-acre of West Texas arroyo. Says Langston: "The project has refined our observations on the way the pterosaur's joints functioned and how the joints were oriented...
...bobcat regularly saunters up the arroyo leading to Paul and Carolyn Zeiger's desert property in Pima County, Ariz., and leaps onto the flat roof of their adobe-style house. As long as their pet terrier, Stella, is inside, they don't worry much. "The bobcat jumps around up there and takes care of the mice," says Carolyn, 61, a clinical psychologist from Boulder, Colo. The Zeigers also get the occasional rattlesnake on their porch, and in the summer they have to stay indoors to avoid the midday heat. But despite those inconveniences--and in part because of them--they...
...distorted image of Filipinos. He gave the impression that all Filipinos are wallowing in poverty. This is not true: many lead modest but not pathetic lives. While it is true that we have some bad leaders, there are others who are really helping our country. Our President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is doing a great job. Our economy grew by 6.2% last year. Foreign investors are pouring in. These are the good things that Mr. Robles seems to have deliberately ignored. I myself am faring far better these days because of improving economic conditions. My family got our first car just...