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After each presentation the winners answered both serious and silly questions from the audience. “How much tequila do I have to give to my boyfriend in order to receive a diamond?” one audience member asked Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the winners of the Chemistry prize who had discovered how to convert tequila into diamonds...
...Castano's message to me was curt: get on a plane to a town across the gulf from Panama, and someone will meet you. Sure enough, a photographer and I landed on an airstrip cut in a cane field, and a very muscular Colombian escorted us to his four-wheel drive vehicle. There was another passenger: a glamorous woman whose arms were so laden with gold and emerald jewelry she could barely lift them. She was silent the entire journey, pensively tracing raindrops on the car window with her red lacquered fingernails...
Sunday, March 13. Castano & Trujillo’s War Takes (Colombia & U.K., 2002) 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
This morning, truck No. 11 in line to the U.S. belongs to Martin Castano. His dented Chevy pickup, loaded with pinatas shaped like Betty Boop and Winnie the Pooh, is dwarfed next to a semi carrying 15 tons of yellow bulldozer claws. Castano usually makes the trip twice a day and can pocket $150 each time. But because it would be easy to stuff marijuana inside Betty or Winnie, he is always waved over for inspection. Castano says he trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week...
While reading about Castano, I could not help thinking that the cure was worse than the disease. MICHAEL D. MOLOHON Daytona Beach...