Word: ceiba
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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...