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...need to watch traffic. But running the shores of the Golden Horn (below Sultanah-met) or along the Bosphorus (above Ortaköy) is special. Take in the views of the water, the stunning architecture and the old men playing cards. Madrid: Options are a good thing, and Retiro Park has many. There's a dirt trail that passes around the park's outer edge, and concrete paths that weave through sculpture gardens and around ponds, so you can run short or long and still make time for the Prado and dinner. Islamabad: In Pakistan's capital, Fatima Jinnah Park...
...a?os atr?s, Sara Mart?nez Tucker era la primera y ?nica ejecutiva hispana en AT&T. Pero su trabajo no la llenaba. "Hab?a llegado a los 40 y no ten?a ni idea de lo que quer?a hacer con mi vida?, recuerda. De manera que se acogi? a un retiro temprano y prob? su suerte en una docena de proyectos sin fines de lucro. Uno de ellos fue el Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), que en aquel tiempo distribu?a $3 millones de d?lares al a?o entre estudiantes latinos necesitados. Y como descubri? desde su puesto en aquel trabajo, esta cantidad...
...reluctant admission that 1) the British had established a beachhead on the Falklands and 2) the foothold was rapidly growing. More and more, Argentines were expressing a longing for peace. Said Produce Vendor Jose Oscar Moryda, as he tidied up his display of fruits and vegetables in the El Retiro market in central Buenos Aires: "If I knew the Pope was coming here specially to bring a solution to the war, it would be great. I suppose he might try, but events have gone so far I just don't know if even he can do anything...
...scene was much the same at Tachito Somoza's hilltop estate in Managua's El Retiro section. Nicaraguan generals, journalists and crew-cut American hucksters panting to sell prefab housing units milled about one day last week waiting for an audience with the general. Somoza's American wife Hope, a striking woman dressed in a red bandanna, print blouse and tight black slacks, directed Red Cross activities from beneath a shade tree. The mood was relaxed and restrained-even though 3,000 Managuans are known to be dead, another 4,000 were buried alive when the earthquake...
...effort has not been as effective or as widely noticed as it might be. While a 185-man Army medical team from the 21st Evacuation Hospital based in Fort Hood, Texas, operated in a barbed-wire-enclosed compound in a meadow in front of Somoza's El Retiro residence, a team of 50 Cuban doctors and paramedics worked in the densely populated Managua barrio of Máximo Jérez. The result was that while U.S. medics were seeing 250 patients per day, Cubans were treating about...