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February, in fact, marks the fifth anniversary of the FARC's capture of three U.S. defense contractors - and the sixth for the rebels' best-known captive, liberal Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, whose dual Colombia-French citizenship has made her a cause celebre in Europe. Chavez said he still believes the FARC will release Gonzalez and Rojas, who was Betancourt's running mate. But if they don't, 2008 will begin as yet one more year of shame for Colombia...
...Mount Rose. During the 1950s drought, for example, a very large portion of the West, along with a big chunk of the Southeast and Great Plains, experienced long-term shortfalls of both winter snows and summer rains. "This is the kind of drought we worry about a lot," says Betancourt--and it's the kind of drought that the present configuration of sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific and North Atlantic seems primed to produce...
Even when discrepancies in socio-economic status and access to care were controlled for, the study showed that disparities in health care for minorities still exist, which Betancourt attributed to miscommunication during care...
...Betancourt said he hopes to increase awareness of the problem, but said doctors are reluctant...
...Betancourt said he hopes medical education will reduce stereotyping. Currently, only 6 percent of doctors in the U.S. come from African-American, Hispanic, and Native American populations, and very few classes in medical school address issues of cultural awareness, Betancourt said...