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...been almost four years since Anthony's last salsa album, the Grammy-winning Contra La Corriente, was released. The fans are restless. "There's no question that he has made salsa more exciting," says Leila Cobo, Billboard magazine's Caribbean and Latin American bureau chief. "Now the challenge will be conquering the mainstream audience." That's exactly what he aimed for during the late-'90s, Ricky-and-Jennifer Latin-crossover blitz. In 1999, after a career singing in Spanish, Anthony released his first English-language pop album. Marc Anthony sold more than 4 million copies internationally; the album's single...
...scams plague Little League competition in the Caribbean region, particularly in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, where it feeds into the local industry of developing major league players for the U.S. market. But in America, the land of opportunity, perhaps no institution tries to speak more eloquently of getting a chance than Little League Baseball. Girls and boys who won't be good enough for high school ball, never mind the pros, have their turn at bat and also the opportunity to build friendships, learn teamwork, grow. The Danny Almonte case is a contravention of opportunity. What Felipe wanted...
...recent weeks, we’ve heard a great deal about the connections of venerable American universities to slavery. Harvard Law School’s first endowed chair was funded with money made off of slavery in the Caribbean, where life was particularly miserable for slaves. The family that founded Brown University made much of its money on the slave trade. No one has mentioned Princeton recently, though slaves worked on that campus. And we have been reminded that many of Yale’s colleges and buildings are named after slave-owners. Even John C. Calhoun, the most notorious...
...much for your article on sharks [SCIENCE, July 30]. I am glad to see one of nature's most beautiful creatures finally portrayed in a scientific fashion, as opposed to the gruesome Hollywood film images. I am studying marine biology in college and, while diving in the Caribbean, have encountered several types of sharks. In every case in which I came upon a shark, it swam away. We humans are a much greater threat to sharks than they are to us. ANDREA C. LAMBERTSON Murfreesboro, Tenn...
...playing the Royal Caribbean Cruise in October...