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...Surviving in waters infested with sharks is something we're not used to.' RAMIRO ARISPE, Bolivian naval captain, on joining a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Bolivia lost its coast during an 1879-84 war with Chile; its navy is landlocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...first become interested in semiotics [the study of symbols and signs]? Ramiro Gomez, BERLIN To have my feet on two levels - one on high culture, and the other on low culture - I was looking to find an approach able to take into account both aspects of our cultural life. For me, that was semiotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Umberto Eco | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

Women the world over may find a miracle brewing in a place called Uruka Amahuaja, a cluster of huts in the Venezuelan rain forest, reachable only by dugout canoe. Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are steeped as a medicinal tea by the Piaroa tribe to relieve menstrual cramps--without the caffeine jitters and other side effects caused by most of today's commercial remedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jungle Medicine | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...almost sure sign that if he wins, he intends to dissolve and re-create Ecuador's legislature in his own populist image. Like Chavez, "Correa is converting his [organizational] weaknesses into virtues and, under the guise of democracy, he'll fashion a Congress favorable to his political project," says Ramiro Crespo, president of the Quito investment bank Analytica Securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Another Chavez On the Rise in Ecuador? | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...officially notify them of the accident and the involvement of Cheney. Kirk, meanwhile, had been rebuffed at the Armstrong gate by a Border Patrol agent who knew nothing about the accident. Salinas says in his report he decided not to go immediately to the ranch after talking to Constable Ramiro Medellin Jr., the former county sheriff. It?s not clear if he was related to the Medellins on the hunt, but the constable told Salinas that he had talked to the hunting party and that it was "definitely" an accident. Salinas spoke himself with some of the witnesses-he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheriff's Report: How Cheney Shot His Pal | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

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