Word: guatemala
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...quest for the truth of what exactly happened. “I had been told there was a former member of Congress who knew what had happened to Irma,” she said, “but by the time I got down there [to Guatemala] he had gone into a diabetic coma and never came out. I now seriously doubt, however, if he really knew the truth...
Blitz was launched last year by Scott Smith, 46, a former Curves franchise owner who wanted to adapt for men that company's quickie regimen. Today Smith counts 86 Blitz locations in the U.S. and Canada. (There's even a franchise in Guatemala.) The gyms, many of them found in strip malls, are set up like mock boxing rings, with members moving between machines and punching bags at the sound of a bell that rings every 30 seconds. "I don't care what your size or strength is," says Smith. "At the end of two 10-minute circuits...
...Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oil-field fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals [and] fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms ... For all his flamboyance?he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls...
Hernandez also did a stint as co-chair of Concilio Latino—the University’s umbrella Latino organization—and was active in HACIA Democracy, which ran model Organization of American States (OAS) conferences for high school students in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador...
...undergraduate at Taylor University in Indiana, Simons spent a semester studying in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and was struck by the abject poverty he witnessed. “It wouldn’t be right for me to go back to the States and pretend I never saw that,” Simons said...