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After an almost-missed, last-one-to-board-the-plane flight from Nicaragua to Miami to Honduras, my roommate and I were off to visit the orphanage I taught at last summer in the city of La Ceiba. Seeing the same 22 faces that I lived with this past June reminded me that, in spite of all that has happened since the summer, nothing had changed in my relationship with these kids. The important things—the songs we danced to (“Te Amo” by Makano), the English expressions I taught them...
DIED. LISA (Left Eye) LOPES, 30, member of the ebullient, tough-talking, Grammy-winning R.-and-B. trio TLC; in a car crash near La Ceiba, Honduras, where she was working to support a child-development center. With hits like Waterfalls and Creep, TLC, which debuted in 1992, evolved from a gimmicky singing trio--Lopes attached condoms to her eyeglasses during concerts--to one that was acclaimed for its original sound. The group's CDs, 1994's CrazySexyCool and 1999's FanMail, which produced the No. 1 hit No Scrubs, sold 25 million copies, more than any other female...
...involved two plane flights, a muddy drive through banana plantations and finally a speedboat ride through a thunderstorm across the Gulf of Uruba to the Darien Gap, the mountainous rain forest separating Colombia from Panama. Castano was waiting on the beach, surrounded by 30 hulking paramilitaries hidden among giant ceiba trees...
...With reporting by Julia Powell, CNN/La Ceiba...
...teacher from Philadelphia is in prison in Honduras now, but once upon a time, as his diary relates, Daniel Gary Rounds was in "paradise." His paradise lies beyond the prison gates and through the storm-ravaged Honduran countryside. Just outside the local Pizza Hut in the town of La Ceiba, boys addicted to sniffing glue work the streets until gringos offer to buy them shoes or let the boys watch TV in their hotel rooms. For many it is a chance to take their first hot shower or get the $10 they need to buy several weeks' worth of rice...