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...about the ecosphere; it's really, if obliquely, about money. Moyers travels the globe, linking dwindling Asian steppes and Brazilian reefs to the health of mankind. It's unabashed advocacy journalism but comprehensive; the recurring theme is the economic interests of multinationals and native laborers, of developing nations and Chilean-sea-bass-eating viewers. Moyers only hints at overall solutions (and their costs), focusing on individual conservation successes, but the ecological truism that we're all connected rarely gets such a broad, God's-eye treatment...
...York taught me that culturally I was more than a Mexicana. There were Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on my street; I went to school with them, along with Cubans, Argentines and Peruvians; I bumped into Salvadoran and Chilean refugees in community centers. I began to see that I was part of a continent--from Patagonia to el Caribe. I still called myself a Mexicana, but I came to consider myself something bigger, a Latina without borders...
...show gets canceled, and a $1 million book deal falls through. Where is the wind beneath those wings? TOM SAWYER Snubbed by the Tonys, the Broadway musical closes after 21 shows at an estimated loss of $7.5 million. Guess it's back to painting fences MARCELO RIOS Chilean tennis star arrested after attacking two cops who stopped his overcrowded taxi. Wouldn't give them an autograph, either...
...book’s readers are not elementary school students asking what fear is. The stark factual style that seems reasonable when discussing facts is a bit baffling and annoying when Galeano beats the twin drums of truisms and vague generalities. No one is surprised to learn that if Chilean newspapers declared the U.S. government to be unsatisfactory, they would be ridiculed. Slogging through such a catalogue of our sins can become tiresome, but when it does, any decent person is then ashamed of his or her boredom...
...Quito Nearly five months after their abduction, seven foreign oil workers were freed in a jungle region of Ecuador. The men-four Americans, a New Zealander, a Chilean and an Argentine, were taken from an oilfield owned by Repsol YPF, a Spanish-Argentine company. Their employers paid a $13 million ransom before they were set free. The abductions have been attributed to either Colombian guerrillas or "common criminals...