Word: peru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Survival Bazaar was open all weekend long, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, and yesterday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The event was capped off by a "Music Bazaar" held in Locker Commons on last night which included music and dance performed by artists from Honduras, Peru, Mexico and Columbia...
After he returned home from a stint in Peru teaching entomology on a Fulbright scholarship, Rose earned a Ph.D. in forestry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
Mario Vargas Llosa the politician ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
...delayed two years, the tribesmen went back to poppies. Laos, which used to produce 3.5 tons of opium annually, recently switched to coffee, rice and chili farming under a U.N. pilot project. So far this year the Lao have cut opium production to a few hundred pounds. In Peru crop substitution has cut coca production 40%. "A million dollars," says Arlacchi, "can have 100 times the effect in Peru or Bolivia that it has by the time the drug reaches a consuming country...
...LIONS: Off Peru and Chile, the warming of the ocean has disrupted the food chain, and marine mammals are going hungry...