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Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. Craze's life is a spinning disc, always changing speeds. Track No. 1: Nicaragua. This is a fast number. "I don't remember much," says Craze, who was born in Managua. "There was a war going on and s___." Track No. 2: Change. When he was three, Craze's parents moved to San Francisco and then to Miami. Track No. 3: Discovery. Craze didn't have much as a kid--not much money, not much direction. But then, when he was 13, his brother brought home a set of turntables...
...thirds of the folks who grow coffee in the world are poor, small-scale family farmers," Brody says. "They live in the mountains of Nicaragua, Indonesia and Tanzania where electricity, roads and schools exist in a very limited basis. They also don't have first hand knowledge of how coffee is traded in the world and how much people would pay for it in consumer cultures like Europe and United States...
Where to go? What retirees tend to want most is--no surprise--a pleasant climate. Fortunately, they can find sunny skies in countries where the cost of living is low, such as Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Some retirees feel comfortable with a large expatriate community, which they can find in nearby Mexico. Many are lured back to places they have worked or visited--or to the land of their ancestors, say, France, Italy or Greece. Some Americans are braving the Irish weather or escaping to the wide-open spaces of countries like Canada or New Zealand. John...
Orlando Vasquez, left, of Nicaragua, looks oddly relaxed for a man hoisting hundreds of pounds of steel overhead. The calm demeanor turned out to be no reflection of success: he placed 18th in his weight class. An in-depth review of other athletes' methods seems to prove there is no correlation between facial elastics and medal prospects...
...trotted down the thickly carpeted stairs and sat down at the bar - five feet from Reagan adviser Michael Deaver! He was having a Coke and telling a story about not having hot water in a hotel room, which my lunch partner pointed out was probably code for "Contras" and "Nicaragua...