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...predominantly rural comunidades have concentrated on spiritual pursuits like reading, Bible study or training non-priests to lead services in remote districts that the church does not reach regularly. One of that country's priests was asked by his bishop to leave the southern sugar-cane town of Puerto Tejada when he started to help the citizenry demand potable water. In Argentina, government repression has all but destroyed the comunidades. But elsewhere, throughout the hemisphere, the little groups have become a force to be reckoned with. Last February at the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) in Puebla, Mexico...
Crimson starter Tim Clifford became a Wee Willie Keeler victim in the third when a grounder with a red-tipped white cane found its way through the infield and Maine second baseman Bob Anthione turned up the chalk on the left field line for a double and one tally. Two more hits brought the score...
...difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could be used, including wheat, potatoes and sugar cane...
...swaying palms and hips that Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Jack London described so affectionately. More than 75% of the island is gloriously uninhabited and is likely to remain so. Only 2,650 acres are zoned for resort use, while 242,408 acres are reserved for cropland. Sugar cane is Maui's premier crop, yielding some 200,000 tons of sugar a year, the world's highest per-acre yield; the third biggest crop is pineapple. The second most valuable crop? Pakalalo, a.k.a. marijuana. Grown illicitly, of course, in rain forests and cane fields that are well...
...polishing off five pounds of cream cheese, whole eggs, cane sugar and water, no matter how well Rowinsky puts it together, has proved impossible, and sometimes revolting, for many lesser gluttons...