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...block stem-cell research because it kills an embryo that has the potential of becoming a human is to limit the potential to save lives and cure many devastating illnesses [NATION, July 23]. HECTOR TIMOURIAN Livermore, Calif...
Protocol issues have also been thorny. Initially Marasco concentrated on local approvals. But before mounting any project in Mexico, especially one involving the border, he learned, it's imperative to move first through federal channels. "The U.S. grants more local authority," says Hector Lutteroth, former deputy mayor of Tijuana. "Here you need a padrino, a godfather, in Mexico City to speed things along." Chris Green, Marasco's chief financial officer, says, "I've done multimillion-dollar deals completely on the phone with some companies in the U.S. before the lawyers papered it and we signed it. That would never happen...
...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 and says, "Mexico...
Colombia, birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many of the fables about El Dorado, has long been a land where people search for the extraordinary. So two years ago, singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist-producer Hector Buitrago of the Colombian rock duo Aterciopelados (ah-tair-see-oh-peh-lah-dose) trekked to Colombia's Putumayo region, befriended a local shaman and joined in what Buitrago calls a healing ritual. "They make this drink, and everyone has it," says Echeverri. "You get terribly sick and get in touch with the divine part of yourself and see beautiful things...
...moderation. For months we've been subjected to the pandering pieties of two presidential candidates slithering inexorably into the soft marshmallow center. We deserve warriors who've got the moxie to go down in flames. When Achilles is informed by his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, that vanquishing Hector on the battlefield will precipitate his own demise, he unhesitatingly opts for the gusto. "I'll lie in peace once I've gone down to death," he exclaims. "But now for the moment, let me seize great glory!" (The Iliad is way WWF.) Vince, don't choke with The Game...