Word: fuegos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal check. The ATM changed all that, using a fusion of computer chips, telepad, phone line and dispensing mechanism to transform the way people access their money. Armed with only a plastic card and a functioning index finger, a customer can now obtain cash as easily in Tierra del Fuego as in downtown Tulsa...
Passing Proposition 187 -- known as the "Save our State" initiative -- would send a message to Washington that "we cannot educate every child from here to Tierra del Fuego," Wilson says. The proposition is breathtaking in its scope: it would render all illegal aliens ineligible for such state social services as welfare, food stamps and health care -- except the emergency care required by federal law -- and all public schooling, from kindergarten to state colleges and universities. State and local agencies would be required to report suspected illegals to the state attorney general and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the sale...
Instead, Benitez links the characters together by setting their stories against the background tale of the improbable Remedios, who performs short rituals every so often, each time summoning one of the four elements of tierra, fuego, agua, aire to her, to remind us of her latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like...
...point about discovery is not that someone floats ashore somewhere, by accident, leaving no traces. The American continental coast from Tierra del Fuego to the Aleutians in the west and Baffin Bay on the east coast is such a vast catchment area for the globe's wind and water currents that it is inconceivable that non-native people should not have fetched up there before Columbus. But the essence of discovery is that the voyage is repeatable. It entails documentation -- logs and records. The discoverer is the person who gets from known A to unknown B, returns...
...become unwitting James Joyces -- coining neologisms by the minute -- when we essay a foreign language, we also become Marcel Marceaus: asking the way to the rest room with our eyebrows or sending back the squid with a paroxysm of mock pain. Ask a man in Tierra del Fuego to point you to The Sound of Music, and he'll instantly reply, "No problem!" (which, in every language, means that your problems are just beginning). Then he'll direct you to the Julie Andrews musical that the Argentines call The Rebel Nun. And when you say "Thank...