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...months Gina Cruz, a Manila grandmother, played Pepsi-Cola's Numbers Fever promotion lottery, buying several bottles a day and saving the caps, in the hope that one of the numbers printed inside would win her a 1 million peso ($40,000) prize. When the magic number, 349, was announced in May 1992, Cruz was overjoyed to find she had not one but two caps bearing the winning digits. She promptly fainted...
...Castillito complex along the Malecon, for instance, boasts two restaurants, a video room with Sony TVs, a roller-skating rink, a disco with an Italian-designed light system and a pool with cavorting men and women. The entry fee to the government-operated club is only 1 peso (6 cents), a steal compared with the admission price at the Havana Club. Around Havana the youthful influence has spiced up revolutionary slogans, which are now splashed in neon colors on the walls. Sumate! (Get involved!) says...
...shine back in the tarnished industry, the Mexican Chamber of Mines is considering minting 20,000-peso silver coins (worth about $6.75). Another idea is to lower the controlled price for the local handicrafts market. But silversmiths say such an action would have little effect at the retail level, since silver makes up only a small part of their overall costs...
...Angeles Times and Boston Globe. Yet White House reporters old and new take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson, who saw two colleagues pass up offers to move to Washington to cover Bush. Adds Wall Street Journal correspondent Michel McQueen, 29, one of the few reporters new to the White House assignment: "People have said, 'Congratulations -- and condolences...
...sister putting herself through this torture for a college that's devaluing faster than the Mexican peso? Maybe she is applying because over the phone I recite all of the good things Harvard still represents...