Word: fabio
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Village by village, Mexico is hollowing out. Fidel Guevara, 39, left his farming hamlet of Manlio Fabio Altamirano, 25 miles west of Veracruz city, five years ago and worked on a farm in New Era, Ore. He moved back last year only because he missed his wife and daughters. His son Hector, 18, is still in Oregon, making $7 an hour at a plant nursery. Guevara's return hasn't been perfect. He says he is lucky to make $6 a week in his butcher shop. His wife Matilde Diaz, 40, chokes back tears over her son's absence...
Luzhin is participating in an important chess tournament against Turati (Fabio Sartor), the world’s top chess master, when he stumbles upon Natalia (Emily Watson). Before he has even asked for her name or managed to engage her in a conversation of more than a few words, Luzhin asks for her hand in marriage. This provides the starting point for the strange yet endearing relationship between...
...troubled adolescents, tragedies like the shootings at Santana and Columbine high schools will happen [SOCIETY, March 19]. Young Andy Williams, who fired on his classmates, should not be the only one on trial. There is room in the court for negligent parents, anonymous suburban society and the N.R.A. too. FABIO POELHEKKE Oegstgeest, the Netherlands...
...have trouble with organized religion: I became "privately religious." I was still Christian, but I didn't dare practice out in the open for fear I'd hear more unhelpful or contradictory things. Sort of how, if you liked Moby Dick because you imagined Ahab looked like Fabio, you wouldn't hang around the English Department saying that. The problem was, since I never allowed my beliefs to be challenged, I never had to formulate them rationally, never had to make them make sense. Hey, I figured, it works for the Southern Baptists. Religion became a mass of beliefs whose...