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...across the hardscrabble state, federal largesse is being ladled out with a generous hand. In the dusty mountain village of San Miguel de Ocosingo, farmer Jacinto Mendoza Lorenzo proudly displays a pair of brand new, apple-green John Deere tractors parked in front of his thatched hut. The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government. Gazing at the precious tractors, Mendoza says, ``We're interested in working, and the government seems to be interested in helping us do that...
...Lorenzo, California
...researcher has determined that Lorenzo's oil, the treatment for the nerve disease adrenoleukodystrophy that was made famous in a 1992 film, can help some patients who take it before symptoms appear...
Yummy's mother was the third of 10 children from four fathers -- she never knew her own. When she was 15 she had her first son Lorenzo, then Victor, then Yummy and eventually five more. She dropped out of 10th grade, found an apartment, went on welfare and nursed a crack habit. For a while she tried living with Yummy's father Robert Akins, who was convicted of drug and weapons charges. They soon split because he had "a rather angry and hot temper," she told a social worker...
Smith, who was assassinated in 1844 in Carthage, Illinois, taught that the trinity is not a triune God as Christians believe but rather "three gods." Meanwhile, God the Father was once a man who achieved divinity. As church prophet Lorenzo Snow, who died in 1901, put it, "As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become." In fact, Smith wrote in Doctrine and Covenants, men whose marriages are sealed and approved by the church will become gods in the hereafter...