Word: griego
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During her first month on the job last year, Denver Post Reporter Diana Griego, then 25, was assigned a feature story on a local dentist who implanted coded microdots in the teeth of children whose parents feared they might be kidnaped. "I wondered," Griego recalls, "Is this really necessary?" She knew that some experts claimed that 1.5 million children vanished every year, 50,000 kidnaped by strangers. But when Griego called the FBI and several private groups, she discovered that no one could back up the alarming numbers. After turning in her microdots story, Griego told her editor she wanted...
Over the next several months, Griego and fellow Reporters Lou Kilzer and Norm Udevitz published dozens of articles proving that about 99% of so-called "missing children" were not abducted by strangers. Rather they were runaways (most of whom returned home within 72 hours) or were taken by parents involved in custody battles. The series, edited by Charles Buxton Jr., pointed out that in 1984 the FBI received reports on only 67 children kidnaped by strangers. For Post Editor David Hall, the stories were especially rewarding, since they began with "a rookie reporter looking deeper into a routine story...
Such problems have eroded popular confidence in the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), essentially a monopoly political group that changes its near absolutist leader every six years. The P.R.I. has dominated Mexico for more than half a century. During that time, says Manuel Garcia y Griego, a historian at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico, "economic growth has been the central pillar of the functioning of the system." Bruce Bagley, a Washington-based Latin American expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, warns that "if oil prices hold below $20 per bbl., it will be a disaster...
Hoffman, a mission specialist, will operate an experiment to test special photographic equipment that will be used to photograph Haley's Comet from the shuttle next year, said Tina M. Griego, a NASA spokesman...
...Harvard astrophysicist will also participate in several experiments studying motion in the weightlessness of space, Griego said...