Word: jose
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...sweat of former dropout Ernest Chavez, 17, hunched over a computer, intent on making up enough courses to graduate with his class. It's there when Sergeant Jose Campos, 62, who has been teaching Junior ROTC for 24 years, brags that this year he has "87 young ladies in my program"--the most ever. And you hear it in the school's mariachi band, practicing before sunrise. A visit to Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School in San Antonio, Texas, shows how far the school has come. Just five years ago, it was the worst school in Texas...
...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
...Brokat Technologies Public company based in Stuttgart, Germany, and San Jose, California CEO: Stefan Roever What it does: Produces e-finance applications and mobile payment software Why it is hot: Targeting the burgeoning field of mobile commerce, Brokat is offering cell phone operators secure software to turn handheld devices into electronic wallets www.brokat.com | last year...
...that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than 7%. ARRESTED. ROBERT S. GORDON,42, former Cisco Systems executive accused of embezzling $10 million from the networking equipment maker and one of its smaller partners; in San Jose, California. ARRESTED. BADARUDDIN ISMAIL, 56, Malaysian human- rights activist and the 10th person arrested this year under the country's draconian Internal Security Act; in Kuala Lumpur. DIED. DAVID WALKER, 56, former astronaut who commanded the 1989 Atlantis voyage and launched the Magellan probe that mapped the surface of Venus...
...cannot pull out of it. As you pointed out, four years ago, the Senate voted 95 to 0 not to participate. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is certainly correct in saying no one should be surprised that the U.S. won't be abiding by Kyoto. ROBERT E. MCNULTY San Jose, Calif...