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...self-proclaimed security zone in southern Lebanon that they seized during the 1978 invasion. Guerrillas there killed seven Israeli soldiers in early summer, touching off escalating exchanges of artillery and rocket fire and eventually Israeli air strikes; when the smoke cleared, about 300,000 Lebanese refugees had been driven northward to escape the conflict. Lebanon, however, has become a satellite of Syria in everything but name; if Israel can negotiate an agreement with Damascus, Beirut should follow quickly...
...over the Madonnas and lost villages of his parents' generation. Undaunted, he treks to Tijuana, watches illegal immigrants make the nighttime dash across the border, tours the old Spanish missions in California. At home in San Francisco he watches AIDS carve his friends to the bone. The epidemic brings northward a Latin preoccupation with death, but Rodriguez suspects that the greater cultural thrust is on the side of the U.S., "the more powerful broadcaster...
...this how the two nations will be reconciled, with sitcoms and rock videos flooding south while Mexicans move northward to shed their past in exchange for a line of credit? Regarding his young nephew in California, poised to start life in the shopping-mall civilization, Rodriguez wonders. "I think it is Mexico I see in his eyes, the unfathomable regard of the past, while ahead of him stretches Sesame Street...
After a two-hour drive northward, we visited one of our Global 2000 agricultural projects. At the end of their second year in this program, farmers were weighing, storing and treating their corn harvest to prevent insect damage. Still produced with rudimentary hand tools, their yields were three times as large as any they had seen before. Directed by Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, the staff of one Senegalese scientist has trained and supervises 131 native agricultural-extension workers. We have found the 150,000 farmers in this program in six African countries to be eager to learn, hardworking, regular...
...ITCA selection committee consists of seven coaches, four from EITA schools. Region I ecompasses schools from West Virginia, Washington D.C. and all states northward. through Maine...