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Helms didn't panic. His students and their parents hail from as far away as Vietnam, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Panama and, fortunately, China. By the end of Zhong's second week, Helms, with help from the Cantonese-speaking students in his class, had taught Zhong to count past 10 as...
But master it they will. After 450 years of colonial rule?first by Portugal, then Indonesia?the Timorese are adapting quickly to the independence they had craved. "I love this freedom," says a shopkeeper selling wine at the bottom of the hill from the Pousade de Maubisse. "In Indonesia time...
Improvements in infrastructure and automobile technology have helped diminish accident fatalities by nearly half since the 1970s in most E.U. countries (the exceptions being Spain, Greece and Portugal, where the number of cars and drivers significantly increased between 1985 and '95). But social attitudes, driver education and diligent enforcement are...
Then there is Portugal. The center-right government of Prime Minister José Manuel Durào Barroso, which took office in March, said a new audit determined that instead of a 2001 budget deficit equivalent to 2.6% of gdp, the shortfall came in at a whopping 4.1%. Stability and...
Peckish? Walk south a block to the Chinese Quarter where large, red gates frame the entrances to a district of hole-in-the-wall noodle shops ($3 noodles-the cheapest in the city!). The Chinese rushed into the country when Japan, fearing the spread of Christianity, closed its doors to...