Word: marty
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Helms-Burton legislation enhancing the effectiveness of the economic embargo against Cuba. Clinton also restricted the travel of Cuban officials in America and limited visits by Cubans. In the works are possible U.N. sanctions against Cuba, and an intensification of broadcasts by the U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro Radio Marti. Despite all the fanfare, the measures "won't hurt Cuba much," says TIME's Cathy Booth. "The general attitude in Florida is that Clinton's measures are not nearly enough. He didn't even cut off the flow of money transfers from Cubans in America, which has been done...
...watch rock videos or listen to the radio? Was he ever a teen, or was he just born old? Today's teenagers are no different from any other generation's! Morrow should focus on the recommendation made in his last sentence: "Change the myth, and the values follow.'' MARTI WEST San Diego, California...
...massive explosion on Mars millions of years ago blasted into orbit rocks that have landed on Earth during recent decades, University of California at San Diego chemist Kurt Marti said today. Marti claims that he has confirmed that a 40-pound meteorite that landed in Nigeria in 1962 was a piece of the distant planet. He explained that gas bubbles trapped inside the meteorite were matched with the atmosphere that the U.S. Viking spacecraft found on Mars in 1976. Marti said further testing showed that the meteorite was wandering in space for about three million years before it landed...
...WAITS ANXIOUSLY AT HAVANA'S JOSE MARTI International Airport, scanning the arriving passengers for the courier from Miami. The life of his nine-year-old daughter, deathly ill with a cancerous tumor, hangs in the balance: the doctors have prescribed chemotherapy, but two of the five drugs needed for treatment are unobtainable in Cuba. Both medications are readily available in Miami, only a 30-minute flight away, but the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo bars the unlicensed sale of medicine to Cuba. The father's last hope lies with an old woman who has agreed to smuggle...
...also coaxed top performances from his cast, especially the lead actresses. Tilly, with her otherworldly glamour, is a New Age evil stepmother; in her sleepytime voice, pod threats have the thrill of seduction. And Anwar (Al Pacino's dance partner in Scent of a Woman) plays Marti as honest, balky, easily bruised; already she has the edgy assurance of a pro slated for stardom. Her soft lashes and wary eyes, which make her look as if she has just been prodded awake into a nightmare, key this haunting film's message: that life has to be faced with eyes wide...