Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to find. In 1970 the lowbush blueberry harvest in New Brunswick, Canada, declined by 75% from the previous year after nearby conifer forests were sprayed with pesticides that wiped out the bees that pollinate the blueberries. In parts of the Southwestern U.S., excessive pesticide spraying of Mexican cotton fields just across the border has reduced populations of two moth species that pollinate certain cactus; as a result, the cactus flowers have withered and dropped...
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who came to power vowing to fight corruption, now finds himself in the position of explaining away charges of impropriety lodged by a member of his political opposition. The charge is small potatoes in the world of Mexican politics, but nonetheless made the front page of Friday's New York Times and amounts to the first smudge on Zedillo's squeaky-clean reputation. Congressman Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, an independent who was formerly a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, says Zedillo permitted a questionable $7 million payment to corn-flour giant...
...hunter-gatherers who crossed into the Americas at least 12,000 years ago, at the end of the most recent ice age. Bits of ancient garbage and the remains of mud buildings hint that by about 2000 B.C., some of their descendants had settled in what is now the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco, living in small fishing villages along the region's rivers...
Still, in the past five or 10 years researchers have managed to uncover a number of key sites, including the monument-strewn ruins of Teopantecuanitlan in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and the sacred shrine at El Manati, whose murky springs yielded the first examples of wooden Olmec statuary and the earliest known evidence of child sacrifice in Mesoamerica. Heat and hardship notwithstanding, the prospect of understanding the still shrouded origins of Mesoamerican civilization--and the haunting beauty of the items on display at the National Gallery--makes it all seem worthwhile...
...killed in a xenophobic riot, the instrument finds its way to a German immigrant farmer on the Great Plains. He and his fellow Germans suffer persecution from the locals during World War I, and when he dies, the accordion winds up in Texas in the hands of a Mexican American similarly persecuted by gringos...