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...been some time since Latin America played host to a coup d'?tat. In fact, when Ecuadorian president Jamil Mahuad was ousted Friday, it was the first military coup in the region in more than a decade. And the early signs are that it was good timing. Ecuador, which has been plagued by economic and social unrest, and where medical services have been virtually nonexistent for the past three months, seemed calm in the days following the ascension of Vice President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano to the presidency - the country's fourth leader in six years...
...anything to help itself," says McGirk. "The new president will have such a hard time raising money to alleviate the social unrest that it seems as though he'll be constantly looking at his watch." Indeed, while Noboa will have a period of goodwill to restore fiscal order, the Ecuadorian people have shown the limits of their patience...
...dawn on his vacation, Lee Peachey climbed a hill in the Ecuadorian cloud forest and unfolded thin nets strung between bamboo poles. When birds, often Amazilia hummingbirds or gray-breasted wood wrens, flew into the nets, he patiently untangled them and, with sweat pouring down his face and into his glasses, carried them down a steep path to a work station below. There he and his wife Helen or one of their three teammates on an Earthwatch expedition recorded the birds' size, type and condition, took blood samples and made sure they were banded before setting them free. At dusk...
...using some familiar stepping stones. At nine she appeared on Star Search, and at 12 she began a stint on the New Mickey Mouse Club. But her musical tastes were always fairly mature for a budding teen queen. Growing up in suburban Pittsburgh, Pa., Aguilera, who is half Ecuadorian and half Irish, had only a passing interest in the pop music of the day. Instead she had a thing for Rodgers and Hammerstein. She not only learned every note of The Sound of Music but even began singing the songs at neighborhood block parties. Her big, broad roof raisers...
...your basic lab experiment, akin to those bubbling in high school chemistry labs every week. In this case, the goal was to determine whether plant samples from the Ecuadorian rain forest contained chemical properties that could be used to combat diabetes. Immerse the leaves in an alcohol extract, then a water extract, and see what happens...