Word: peninsulas
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This once and future king had decidedly modest beginnings. His parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, adopted Steven in February 1955 and later moved from Mountain View, on the peninsula south of San Francisco, to Los Altos after their son complained of rough times at the junior high school. "He came home one day from the seventh grade," Paul Jobs remembers, "and said if he had to go back to school there again he just wouldn't go. So we decided we'd better move...
...Portillo too was an optimist. When he took power in 1976, inflation was 30%, and Mexico already owed some $20 billion to foreign banks. But geologists were discovering that in vast fields located in Chiapas and Tabasco states, as well as off the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico possessed proven oil and gas reserves that are now estimated to total 72 billion bbl., second only to Saudi Arabia. The fields were quickly exploited, and by 1981 Mexico was pumping 2.5 million bbl. per day, making it the world's fourth largest oil producer. Mexico earned $14 billion from its wells...
...Menominee (pop. 10,000), a manufacturing town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 2,400 high school students must share just three Apple computers. Downstate in Ovid, teachers at the town's elementary school had to hook their only computer to a television set because they could not afford the standard video monitor. "We have a sense of panic," says Principal Tom Van Deventer. "A year ago, a computer was a luxury. Now it is a necessity." But there are competing necessities. In New Orleans, where fewer than 7% of the schools have computer classes, one school district administrator...
...deals on semiprecious stones such as amethysts, tourmalines, topazes and aquamarines, which cost about 30% less than in the U.S. Neighboring Argentina, formerly one of the two or three most expensive countries in the world, is merely medium-priced today. A weeklong excursion for two from Buenos Aires to Peninsula Valdes, 840 miles away, to view whales and penguins can be bought for just $340, including air fare, hotel room and two meals...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...