Word: infanta
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...normally is the very embodiment of decorum, Juan Carlos' retort to the Venezuelan president - "Why don't you shut up?" - seemed shockingly uncharacteristic. But a statement from the Palace on Tuesday may have offered a bit of context on the royal mood: the king's eldest child, the infanta Elena, was separating "temporarily" from her aristocratic husband, Jaime de Marichalar. Could His Majesty - coolheaded impeder of military coups, tireless inaugurator of schools and hospitals, diplomatic booster of all things Spanish - be feeling a little family stress...
...tame the storms, and the rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind the towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become instruments of death-powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. Last Monday, Mary Anne Bantucan, a 34-year-old schoolteacher from Maragondon, was returning to her hometown from Infanta in a jeepney with her mother and eight...