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...students at Lomada School. He coordinates the work of two Silbo teachers to cover the island's 14 other schools. Students aged 7 to 14 do half an hour of whistling a week; those under 7 do 15 minutes to acquaint them with the technique. The Silbo employs ch, y, g and k sounds, plus the vowels a and i. "The sounds are approximate to spoken Spanish," says Darias. "Some words, such as catarro [a cold] and cacharro [a cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana [wool]. Context tells you which." To test whether this...
...pretty satisfied how the money is spent," says Teemu Lehtinen, who heads Finland's 190,000-member Taxpayers' Association. Cut Waste, Fraud and Abuse Last year the French justice ministry set up several homes for teenage delinquents. For one of the first, it acquired an 18th century château in Normandy with a big park and swimming pool, where it employs 27 people to oversee eight young multiple offenders (one of whom recently escaped). The annual cost to French taxpayers: €1.7 million, not including €610,000 for the château. The acquisition prompted the resignation...
...troops put down a coup attempt by members of his presidential guard. It was the second attempted putsch against Kabila's power-sharing government since it was formed last year. His armed forces earlier retook the eastern city of Bukavu , which had been under rebel control for a week. Chávez Faces a Recall VENEZUELA The National Electoral Council set August 15 as the date of the recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez. If Chávez loses the vote a presidential election will be called in this major oil produce
...called by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party religious alliance, to protest sectarian violence. Days earlier, a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque in the city killed 23, shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral Council confirmed that opponents had gathered more than the 2.4 million signatures required for the ballot. But officials have yet to agree on a date: should Chávez be recalled before Aug. 19, new elections...
THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger. CH...