Word: llamas
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...World fades away--salsa is more popular than ketchup; Salma Hayek is bigger than Madonna--and the border is everywhere. One day soon it may seem a little backward for someone in the U.S. not to speak some Spanish, even the hybrid Spanglish of the Southwest: "Como se llama your dog?" Signs appear in the store windows of Garden City, Kans., that say SE HABLA ESPANOL, and you can buy extremely fresh mangoes at bodegas all over that town. Dalton, Ga. (pop. 27,900), has three Spanish-language newspapers. Says longtime resident Edwin Mitchell, 77: "We're a border community...
...nivel nacional. "Nuestros j?venes no ven la universidad como una posibilidad", dice Mart?nez Tucker. A sus 49 a?os, Mart?nez Tucker es ahora la presidente del fondo, y ha volcado su experiencia de negocios en ?l con el objetivo de expandir sus operaciones. Su trabajo es captar estudiantes -que ella llama clientes- a trav?s de reuniones celebradas en 51 mercados claves. Al mismo tiempo, donantes corporativos como Ford y Coca-Cola le agradecen que hable lenguaje que ellos entienden: resultados por la inversi?n. The Lilly Endowment, una fundaci?n filantr?pica privada, qued? tan impresionada que le don? un cheque de $50 millones...
...inventory of toys and games, her collection of more than 14,000 stuffed animals, even her handcrafted-from-natural-material playthings, given to her by liberals, which of course she never plays with. When another child ventures onto her turf and shows an interest in, say, one tiny stuffed llama made by Peruvian peasants from organic wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot--visions of the Bush daughter in the limo, her tongue stuck out--a royal...
...sheep are guarded by an elegant llama, and it is a pleasure to say hello to the llama every day,” she explains...
...understand why Evo Morales has come within a llama's hair of being President of Bolivia--and why his formidable political power is giving U.S. officials fits--pay attention when he and his top advisers open their mouths. That is, see what they're chewing: coca leaves, treasured by Andean Indians like Morales as a sacred tonic and as their most lucrative cash crop but better known to Americans as the raw material of cocaine. Over the past five years, the U.S. has got Bolivia to uproot almost all of its coca shrubs--only to see Morales...