Word: managua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nicaragua alone, where 3,800 were thought dead, much of the landscape looks as barren as the moon. Starving, sallow-skinned children, many suffering cholera from the fetid waters that destroyed their homes, begged for food on the crumbled, mud-slick roads between Managua and the flooded northern sierras...
...MANAGUA, Nicaragua: Hurricane Mitch may have ratcheted up its casualty figures by faking out Central American authorities. "Mitch came from the east, which was where people prepared," says TIME reporter Lorraine Orlandi. "But most of the damage actually occurred on the west coast." The hurricane's behavior was also atypical: "People mostly prepared for hurricane-strength winds passing through," says Orlandi. "Nobody imagined that Mitch would stay in one place for almost a week and dump so much rain -- most of the deaths were caused by flooding and mud slides...
...times a year. But since I started eating garlic, I have not had a single cold. Each day I have a garlic clove with breakfast, along with a spoonful of parsley to eliminate the odor. I don't know about vampires, but it sure works against colds. PAGET SAYERS Managua...
...region in America sees more demographic upheaval than Miami does, and the Herald addresses it up-front and openly. That means taking risks. Some work: El Nuevo Herald, our Spanish-language counterpart, now has a daily print run of 110,000. Some don't work: we now staff Managua rather than New York City. Dealing with change is what journalism is all about. Forget the "shell" game. GENE MILLER, Associate Editor/Reporting Miami Herald Miami...
Brian R. Joseph, advisor of international relations at the University of Central America in Managua, Nicaragua, said the discussion was important in light of the central role America plays in global politics...