Word: rio
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...Ratha. "We had better not wish it away, because it's very much there to stay." On three continents, migrants and their families described how the transfers worked. Nine years ago, Cornelio Zamora left his home in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, paying a smuggler $2,500 to take him across the Rio Grande into the U.S. He had been unable to support his wife and four children on the $7 a day he earned as a bus driver. Working as a house painter in San Jose, California, Zamora, 48, now sends about $700 a month home. His wife says she has based...
...have been supporting a project of the democratization of human knowledge via the Internet since its inception. I am a regular contributor to the Wikipedia, with articles on several subjects. Time's story proved a useful support for our dream of bringing culture closer to our readers. Hamilton Castro Rio de Janeiro Judging the Nominee Re your report on supreme court nominee John Roberts [Aug. 1]: As a Roman Catholic like Roberts, I want to say that being Catholic does not necessarily make a person a right-wing religious fanatic or a pawn of the Pope. Catholics are thinking individuals...
...global pursuit of nemesis Ronnie Biggs, one of the masked men who in 1963 robbed a mail train from Glasgow to London of ?2.6 million (then $7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery, and later escaped jail; reported in London. Though Slipper nabbed Biggs in Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with the words, "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs?who remained a fugitive until 2001, when he turned himself...
...nemesis Ronald Biggs, one of the masked men who robbed a night mail train from Glasgow to London of £2.6 million ($7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and who, though caught, soon escaped jail; reported in London. Slipper tracked Biggs to Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), but Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs, who remained a fugitive until 2001, when he turned himself...
...still, like my facial hair, I have had an amazing growing experience in Rio. I have learned that there are foreign lands that are completely different from Harvard. There are foreign lands where people speak in a different tongue that isn’t Spanish. Foreign lands where people interact with each other on a consistent and spontaneous basis and do not need to hire alumni to improve their social lives...