Word: havana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gloria Maria Fajardo and her family left Cuba for America, Cuba never really left them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army...
...featured single, Reach, has been designated as the official theme song of the Atlanta Olympics (she will perform it during the closing ceremonies). But singing star or no, Estefan, a 38-year-old mother of two, still has the unused portion of her round-trip ticket from Havana to Miami. Even as she chats, relaxed, in the two-story mansion she shares with her manager-husband Emilio on Star Island off the Miami coast, she thinks of Cuba, "mi tierra." She says mournfully: "I can't even see where I was born...
...seedlings. There is even a particle gun that genetically transforms sugarcane embryos by peppering them with DNA-coated BBs. But what really impresses foreign visitors is the folding cot that occupies a corner of De la Riva's office. At the Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia (CIGB) in Havana, Cuba, De la Riva explains, researchers strive to stay ahead of the competition by sleeping alongside their experiments...
...endeavor ranks as one of the most idiosyncratic of President Fidel Castro's ventures, and despite the anticapitalist rhetoric that resurfaced during last week's May Day celebrations, it may well prove to be the most profitable. The flourishing technological barrio that has sprung up on the outskirts of Havana is not only supplying state-of-the-art health products to local hospitals and clinics but also selling more and more of its goods abroad, bringing in badly needed foreign currency in excess of $100 million a year...
Right now, however, the U.S. trade embargo prohibits American drug and chemical companies, Cuba's natural partners, from establishing joint ventures. The embargo likewise dissuades big European companies from striking deals with Cuba because products made in Havana cannot be sold in the U.S., which represents 50% of the global market for pharmaceuticals...