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What was your happiest moment, personally and professionally? -German Oliveros, Bucaramanga, ColombiaPersonally, it was the day I proposed to my wife. Nothing could ever touch when she said, 'yes.' Professionally the two moments that come to mind are when I got to Imaginarium, which was just such a joyous thing, and the very first "Building Virtual Worlds" show that we did. It's amazing when young kids do something that is literally beyond your imagination...
...bombed twice, most recently in September; the $2.5 million damage tally included destruction of the computer system and presses. Yet El Espectador has not missed a day of publication and has kept up the drumbeat against the cartels. Even harder hit was the country's second oldest newspaper, the Bucaramanga-based Vanguardia Liberal, which supported the government's crackdown and was all but destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says El Espectador's slight, bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that does...
Last week as the seasonal rains fell, signaling the start of ant harvest time, Santandereano peasants bolted their spring planting and scrambled as fast as their bare feet would take them to the dune-like ant hills that dot the countryside near the city of Bucaramanga. Stepping lively to avoid the angry swarms of worker ants, they seized the inch-long queens as they emerged, and popped them into hollowed calabashes. The nimblest harvesters caught up to three lbs. of ants in a morning's work...
...Individual Madness." In Bogota, news of the revolt reached Government Minister Alberto Lleras, who promptly rallied the cabinet around Vice President Dario Enchandia. Garrisons had also revolted in Bucaramanga and Ibague. Acting President Enchandia declared a state of civil war, called the revolt "an act of individual madness...
...Abortive risings also occurred at Bucaramanga Ibague but the kidnapping of President Lopez was the central episode...