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...blame the remote cocaleros, or coca farmers, more than the addictive appetites of Americans. A key sore point was last year's creation of a special U.S.-funded Bolivian army unit to enforce eradication. "The army soldiers come to my house and shout, 'You b_______ Indian coca sellers!'" says Maria Luz Gomez, 32, a cocalera in Morales' home state of Cochabamba. "But without the coca, we can't have a life here." The special unit has been accused in numerous killings of cocalero leaders in Cochabamba, most notoriously Casimiro Huanca, who witnesses say was shot in the back by soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Side of The Coca Farmer | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...expanding rapidly. Many of them--22% in the survey--are used to living well (free spenders with good incomes while in their careers) but did not save enough and have already run out of cash or will soon. This group is "flipping out," Dychtwald says. Take George and Maria Rudd of Miami. Together they earn $280,000 a year but have more credit-card debt ($45,000) than savings and investments ($40,000). George, 69, is a construction manager and wants to retire in two years. Both he and Maria, 62, a financial-services compliance officer, rue their profligate lifestyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever Retire?: Everyone, Back in the Labor Pool | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...free operations and medicines. Others said they were threatened with fines and the loss of medical help if they refused to be sterilized. MEANWHILE Bella Figura An alternative beauty contest in Italy chose a new Miss Cicciona (Tubby) to signal resistance against her countrywomen's worship of svelte bodies. Maria Dore, 36, crushed rivals to win the contest after weighing in at 194 kg (427lbs). Afterward she revealed her weight-gaining secret: pizza with mushrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/28/2002 | See Source »

...Maria S. Pedroza

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, | Title: Big Shoulders | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...Maria S. Pedroza ’04, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator living in Winthrop House. When she is not riding the bus in Chicago, she has stints as an intern at a talent agency in downtown Chicago and as a caddie for the 5th year in the western suburbs where she is feverishly working on her farmer...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, | Title: Big Shoulders | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

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