Word: colima
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...Tortugas for noddies and boobies, Alaska for arctic and Asian species. The final step is the long trip to see a single bird: Michigan for Kirtland's warbler, Calcasieu County in Louisiana for the black francolin, a grueling five-mile trek up the Chisos Mountains in Texas for the Colima warbler...
Given the initial communications void, there was no way of knowing how many casualties had occurred in Mexico's rural areas. But scattered damage was reported from the coastal states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan. These were close to the epicenter, which geologists located offshore near the border between Michoacan and Guerrero, some 200 miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort...
Born in the small Pacific state of Colima, De la Madrid had a conventional middle-class upbringing by Mexican standards, with one important exception. His father, a prominent local attorney, died when De la Madrid was only two; he was shot by an irate enemy of one of his clients. De la Madrid, his mother and only sister moved to Mexico City, where Miguel was a diligent student, working part-time as a bank's legal clerk to help support the family. De la Madrid now credits his mother Alicia Hurtado de la Madrid with having given...