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...changes they make in their local environments. Unusually warm waters played an important role in the cholera epidemic that hit Latin America in 1991, but the outbreak was also exacerbated by sewage poured into the waters off Asia and Latin America, the destruction of pollution-filtering mangroves in the Bay of Bengal and overcrowding in the cities...
...escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was exposed to Agent Orange, developed multiple sclerosis and died in 1980. Gloria used to send her father tapes of her singing when...
Conceding that Friday's move was a step in the right direction, some investigators and officials in the field nonetheless contend that it is another case of the cleanup team's doing the barest minimum necessary to keep the feds at bay. The Buffalo local, they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that...
...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
Driving last week by downtown's Symphony Hall, built in the past decade to much fanfare, I was struck by its desertion. No signs up for upcoming performers; no banners announcing that the Symphony Pops would once again be held on a peninsula jutting into the bay. The symphony's finances were badly mismanaged; that is something everyone here seems to agree...