Word: ecuador
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...Christmas and the opening of Parliament. It comes not a moment too soon. Yesterday ? the U.K.'s fifth day of mourning over Princess Diana ? saw an increase in public distaste over the way the Royals have handled their grieving. Meanwhile, the Diana sightings began, and that noted celeb hotspot, Ecuador, passed a tough anti-paparazzi...
...apprenticeship as a hospital intern and resident and instead devote his time to traveling through the forests and villages of South America, studying not the great engine of Western medicine but the gentle power of the curative herb. Weil spent more than three years in the field in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and elsewhere, and when he returned to the U.S. in the mid-1970s, he decided that he would make his living teaching, writing and otherwise spreading the alternative-medicine word. Today that word has rewarded him well...
DIED. GERALD GAULL, 66, U.S. pediatrician, whose identification of taurine in mother's milk, an amino acid important for brain development, prompted its inclusion in baby formulas; of an aortic aneurysm; in Quito, Ecuador...
...exhibit consists of seven sculptures by Greg Wyatt, a resident sculptor at the St. John's cathedral in New York, and 29 paintings by Ivonne A-Baki, the Dudley House artist in residence and consul of Ecuador...
...QUITO, Ecuador: What was "El Loco" was doing in those truculent last days in Ecuador, barricaded inside the presidential palace? Stuffing his presidential pockets with everything that wasn 't nailed down. Even as an angry crowd stood outside the palace, chanting "Thief, thief, thief," the outgoing Abdala Bucaram and his henchmen were spiriting 11 burlap sacks out of the palace, sacks allegedly stuffed with $3 million in ca sh along with some of the palace's more portable treasures. Witnesses say the sacks were put into vehicles with tinted glass--and taken out of the palace at night along with...