Word: rodolfo
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...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...Gloria is more beholden to the military than to People Power," complains Wilson Fortaleza, president of the leftist political movement Sanlakas, which helped get people on the streets to oppose Estrada. Politicians are concerned about the military's renewed role. "One question remains to be sorted out," says Senator Rodolfo Biazon, former armed forces chief of staff. "Are we setting a standard for our military to be always a major factor in the resolution of political controversies in our country?" People Power II changed the occupant of the presidental palace?but the military may be calling the shots...
...venom purchased from Kristensen in the 1980s, for example, helped neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas of New York University School of Medicine discover a new calcium channel involved in the communication between certain neurons, shedding new light on how the mind works. Another toxin extracted from Spider Pharm venom in 1995 by Kenton Swartz at the National Institutes of Health (named hanatoxin after Swartz's daughter) is being used to probe the function of proteins that are located on cellular membranes and have been implicated in diseases ranging from diabetes to epilepsy...
...Harvard alumnus I have to deplore the manipulation and improper use that President Mahuad made of his Harvard ties," wrote Rodolfo A. Baquerizo '85, who was a board member of Ecuador's central bank from 1992 to 1996, in an e-mail message...