Word: jes
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...their families who visit the Sandinista amusement park, critics claim the Ortega government is starting to provided circuses without the bread. Children have a right to play and have fun, but they also have a right to sustainable development that includes health, education and protection, says María Jesús Gomez, head of the Nicaraguan Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations Working with Children and Adolescents (CODENI). Gomez says the Happy Children theme park is not a sustainable strategy to deal with problems facing children in the hemisphere's second-poorest country after Haiti...
...former high-ranking federal police official whose information led to last year's indictment of Mexico's federal police chief and other top cops for alleged narco-corruption - was fatally riddled with bullets by two hit men dressed in suits as he sipped coffee in a Starbucks. Last month, Jesús Zambada, the nephew of a top drug-cartel boss, Ismael (El Mayo) Zambada, was found dead in the federal safe house where he was being guarded. Officials say he hanged himself, but few in Mexico are buying that. (See pictures of Ciudad Juárez, the most dangerous...
...hairstylist, lives with her husband Jesús in one of the new apartments. Jesús has a steady job as a civil servant, and the couple's mortgage, thanks to the government's help, is just €400 ($520) a month. But her sense of dread is palpable. "We used to have 10 clients a day," she says of the salon where she works. "Now I can go from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. without a single customer. Do you know what it's like to sit around all day, just hoping that someone will walk through...
...ever find yourself unintentionally speaking these invented languages in your daily life? I definitely had a little bit of that when I can back from one of the Esperanto conferences. I had gotten very used to these little set phrases like jes, the Esperanto word for "yes." I would be ordering a sandwich at the counter, and the cashier would ask, "Do you want a bag for that?" I'd say, "Jes," with this weird pronunciation...
...liturgy: 19th-Century Italian priest Gaetano Errico; Mary Bernard (Verena) Bütler, a Swiss nun and missionary in Latin America who died in 1924; Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, a nun who who died in 1946 and is the first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light the way ahead," as the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia puts...