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...token, you might call Eleta P&G's chief backyard chef. As P&G's top ethnic marketer, she heads the company's Hispanic efforts from the division's headquarters in Puerto Rico. But the Panama City--born P&G vet doesn't spend too much time in the Caribbean--every month she spends a week or so in Hispanic hotbeds like Los Angeles, Dallas and New York City, managing retail relationships, meeting with customers. "She walks the stores, walks in the community," says Ernest Bromley, head of ad agency Bromley Communications, based in San Antonio, Texas...
...respond by passing stricter minimum sentences for a whole range of federal offenses, and the Senate is sure to hold hearings, at the very least. Senate Judiciary Committee aides told TIME that they expect an enormous amount of litigation to result from the decision. From his vacation in the Caribbean, Republican Representative Tom Feeney of Florida issued a statement denouncing the Supreme Court for placing "extraordinary power ... in the hands of a single judge" and flying "in the face of the clear will of Congress...
...know your marriage is finished when a holiday at a $10,000-a-night Caribbean resort isn't romance enough to see you through the first week of the New Year. Reps for JENNIFER ANISTON and BRAD PITT confirmed a PEOPLE report that the Hollywood power pair are separating after 41/2 years of wedlock, months of tabloid speculation and a probably joyless trip to Anguilla. The comely couple, who met on a blind date in 1998, told PEOPLE in a statement that they "remain committed and caring friends" with "love and admiration for one another." Guess that means they split...
...relocation. Yes, Zissou wears a little red wool cap like Cousteau's. And, yes, he pilots a World War II minesweeper converted into a seagoing laboratory, also like Cousteau's. But it is no longer the famed Calypso. It is now called the Belafonte (a joke nod to the Caribbean crooner). And though the boat contains a sauna, a hot tub and a purloined cappuccino machine, its wiring goes on the fritz at awkward moments and its submersible has definitely seen better days...
Consider last fall's devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean and U.S. Southeast. Haiti lost around 2,000 lives, while the U.S. Southeast, hit roughly as hard in meteorological terms, lost a few dozen lives. Or consider the worldwide AIDS epidemic, in which the impoverished countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with just 11% of the world's population, have 64% of the cases and 74% of the deaths. Or consider that both Darfur, Sudan, and the U.S. Southwest are suffering from deep and persistent droughts. In Sudan, the droughts have led to hunger, disease and bloodshed, while...