Word: coasting
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...exciting things. I participated in archaeological digs, studied German in a small town in Austria and helped gather data for a study on plant life and mammals (shrews, rats and mice, more specifically--they really are cute, despite what some people may say) on an island off the coast of France. But then I got the strange idea that I had to spend my summers finding out what I might want to do "later...
What I'm about to reveal may shock you: I favor prayer in schools. And not just private and parochial schools, either; I'm referring to public schools from coast to coast. And yet, I firmly believe that the First Amendment's guarantee of separation of church and state must be maintained at all costs. Although the presence of "In G-d we trust" on American currency does not offend my personal religious sensibilities, I would understand completely if it were removed for the sake of Constitutional principles. Nor would I mind if "under G-d" were eliminated from...
CHOLERA. In 1991 a freighter coming from South Asia emptied its bilges off the coast of Peru. Along with the wastewater came a strain of cholera that found a home in huge algal blooms stimulated by unusually warm ocean waters and abundant pollution. The microbe then made its way into shellfish and humans. So far, the epidemic has infected over half a million people and killed at least...
...singing star or no, Estefan, a 38-year-old mother of two, still has the unused portion of her round-trip ticket from Havana to Miami. Even as she chats, relaxed, in the two-story mansion she shares with her manager-husband Emilio on Star Island off the Miami coast, she thinks of Cuba, "mi tierra." She says mournfully: "I can't even see where I was born...
More than 1,500 years before the Maya flourished in Central America, 25 centuries before the Aztecs conquered large swaths of Mexico, the mysterious Olmec people were building the first great culture of Mesoamerica. Starting in 1200 B.C. in the steamy jungles of Mexico's southern Gulf Coast, the Olmec's influence spread as far as modern Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica and El Salvador. They built large settlements, established elaborate trade routes and developed religious iconography and rituals, including ceremonial ball games, blood-letting and human sacrifice, that were adapted by all the Mesoamerican civilizations to follow...