Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live in poverty--and each year, searching for jobs, they scratch their way onto Caracas' perilous mountainside real estate. In those vertical, collapsible slums, potable water is a luxury, and violent crime is among the worst in South America. "We live in a constant state of emergency," said one rancho community leader...
Physician and philosopher Albert Schweitzer was the conscience of our age. He worked as a humble doctor treating thousands in equatorial Africa for 35 years. He was the Mother Teresa of the first half of this century. BETTY JANE BROWN Rio Rancho...
...which 'people were going in and buying out (movie) houses for their entire elementary school for Saturday morning.' 'These were real moms who had gotten together and decided to do this,' she added...." "The Pokemon frenzy may have even driven youngsters to crime. In the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes, authorities reported Friday that two boys, ages 12 and 13, were arrested this week for allegedly stealing 171 Pokemon trading cards from classmates at their middle school and from students at three nearby elementary schools...." "The box office surge follows a phone frenzy last week. The Warner Bros...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew finished in sixth place at the NCAA Championships on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif...
...Jack Kevorkian may be behind bars, serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for murder, but authorities in New Mexico suspect that one of his associates may be carrying on his work in their state. A year ago, DONNA BRENNAN, 54, was found dead in her Rio Rancho, N.M., home. She had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years, but an autopsy revealed she died from a lethal dose of pentobarbital. A neighbor told police that the morning Brennan died, she had been visited by a man named George. The authorities identified him as GEORGES REDING...