Word: rios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who has watched the village T.V. with a coat hanger for an antenna. Anyone who has kicked a ball full of rags through the slums of Rio or fallen to neatly manicured German turf in celebration. It is the game and passion of the world. We should count ourselves thankful that it was held here this summer. And we must hope it comes back...
...modern drugs, herbal medicines -- Cuba produces 300 different types -- are making a vigorous comeback. "People used to say only witches and the uneducated used herbs, but as times and politics have changed, we have turned to medicina verde," says Dr. Majmud Gomez, a family doctor in Pinar del Rio. He uses herbal preparations to treat a variety of conditions, from parasites to a problem caused by the soap shortage, an itch for which he prescribes a pomade made from the majagua tree...
...Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Ian McCluskey...
...Meridian, an apocalyptic epic, his Moby Dick, about a scalp hunter in the 1840s; to read it is to say goodbye to peace. Few did read it. McCarthy continued to live close to the bone in El Paso, a close-to-the-bone kind of town, just across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. He golfed, shot pool, ate modest portions of simple food at a cafeteria nearby and at a clattery coffee shop, hung with a couple of lawyers, an artist, an academic and a Nobel-prizewinning physicist next door in New Mexico, saw some young women...
...variations. Geographically, the picture varies not just by regions but by neighboring states or even within states. In New England, Massachusetts and New Hampshire are growing strongly, but Connecticut has been knocked virtually prostrate by cutbacks in its three main industries: defense, shipbuilding and insurance. In Texas the Rio Grande Valley, for decades the poor stepchild of the economy, is flourishing because of trade with neighboring Mexico. But other parts of the state are troubled by defense cutbacks. Texas Instruments, after slashing worldwide employment from 70,000 in 1990 to 59,500 today, is hiring people to fill orders...