Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sell high-end computers and satellite technology to Beijing. Now the "soft on China" shouts are louder than ever, boosted by claims from critics in both parties that top Administration officials delayed and soft-pedaled the investigation into alleged Chinese spying at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, birthplace of the atom bomb...
...sculpture, I would always do themes from the book as well, you know, so I'd get completely obsessed. Obsessed! There's that word again. Maybe writing is an obsession. [Laughs]...I kept taking classes that would help me with the book. So when I had them down in Mexico I signed up for Spanish 101 so I could put in a few Spanish phrases, which I did, for the four Spanish sentences. I wanted Fatima to be African because I wanted to include a lot of the continents. So I took [a course on] 19th and 20th Century African...
...rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east from Switzerland on March 1, raced across Mexico from the Pacific on Tuesday, and headed out over the Caribbean. Piccard and Jones have already broken the world record of 14,235 miles set last August by American Steve Fossett...
...Republican state legislators across the country are rushing to write draft-Bush letters before he makes it official. Ninety percent of Republicans in the South Carolina house have signed on, and 75% of the G.O.P. in Iowa's house and senate. The numbers are similar in California and New Mexico. And those who hand-deliver the letters to Bush leave even more love sick than when they came, quoting passages from his second inaugural address and describing in near mythic terms his intellect, candor and vision. "There is a twinkle in his eye," gushes Iowa state representative Chuck Larson...
Edna's "awakening" begins--and ends --at Grand Isle on the Gulf of Mexico, a two-hour drive south of New Orleans. A deadly hurricane in 1893 leveled much of the island, but the smooth beaches and sultry subtropical climate remain unchanged. It is not hard to imagine Edna in her final swim, lured by "the voice of the sea...seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude...