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...during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict Roman Catholic upbringing, Bolivia's First Lady insists: "I want to give them...
...Nana Kwabena Kena II, Ghana's high commissioner to India. Kena's body had arrived just before the Peace Corpsmen landed. The officials who welcomed them were in a somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep and lasting friendship while they are here, and that they are establishing a pattern that will do great good in many ways for many people." To this sentiment, most Americans would add a hopeful...
...Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry as he had hoped, not mythic, mysterious and magical as he had planned, but lucid, passionate, realistic, masterly...
...Arabs capture the fortress city of Tripoli from the Barbary pirates in 1804. In the battle for the castle at Chapultepec in 1847, fewer than 200 of Winfield Scott's 7,200 troops were marines. The actual heroes of Chapultepec, moreover, were the Mexican boy cadets, Los Niños Heroes, who, with a small number of regular troops, forced the gringos to retreat three times in 24 hours, and finally died fighting...
...group of 22 sufferers treated with the ultrasonic waves, 15 were relieved of further at tacks of the disease, and four showed marked improvement. In some cases, patients have even been able to hear better after treatment. But because of the inter mittent nature of Ménière's disease, it is difficult to prove whether the gun cured the victims or the disease cured itself...