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...measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous in part because its full force appeared to hit densely populated parts of the city...
...people of Galicia are so guarded, other Spaniards joke, that if you catch one of them on a staircase, you'll never discover whether he or she had been going up or down. But Ramon Sampedro, of the Galician fishing village of Xuno, 620 km northwest of Madrid, could not be more open about his intentions: he wants to die--so much so that he has asked the European Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg to declare it his entitlement...
...bills. For years afterward Mexico was a dirty word to foreign investors, who left it to starve for development capital. Rebuilding credibility required a long stretch of austerity and the sale of inefficient state operations like banks and telephone companies, measures begun by President Miguel de la Madrid and continued by his successor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Salinas got foreign-debt payments down to a fraction of the annual budget and performed the ultimate miracle of lowering Mexico's inflation rate from 157% to less than 10% by last year. By 1989 the gross domestic product was growing again...
...exhibit by Braco Dimitrijevic, the world-renowned conceptual artist from Sarajevo? Should we take some pleasure in the performance, which features a bicycle and a potato, or shall we first go have a drink near the French Bookstore, where there are new books from New York, Madrid and Paris...
...Steve Mitra -- TIME Daily offers a summary of top news, often shaped with special insights from TIME correspondents around the world. The daily service has already scored some coups: it was the first media source to report that emissaries from Fidel Castro were meeting with Cuban exiles in Madrid to broker a deal between the U.S. and Havana on Cuban refugees...