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...publicity surrounding the large debtors has overshadowed the plight of many other less developed countries that are in far worse shape. Says William Rhodes, a senior vice president at New York's Citibank, which has $18.4 billion on loan to Latin America: "Progress in some countries is sometimes balanced by setbacks in others." Bolivia, which has an annual inflation rate of 3000%, stopped making payments on its $3.5 billion debt last May. The Sandinista government in Nicaragua is using at least 40% of its budget to fight its civil war and thus has no way to meet payments...
Deborah Daly, 27, a seasonal fire fighter for the California department of forestry, worked twelve days straight. "I'm not in bad shape, but I'm getting tired," she said, echoing the sentiments of many of her colleagues. After she helped her team dig an emergency firebreak around a threatened house, said Daly, "I thought my arms were going to fall off. But it felt great. Saving houses is a fantastic feeling...
...encouraging, he said, that physicians had found no evidence that the President's cancer had spread beyond the section of the bowel removed during surgery. It was particularly significant that no malignant cells were found in the 15 lymph nodes in the excised section of the colon. These bean-shape structures act to screen the lymph, a watery fluid drained from between the body's cells, for bacteria and abnormal cellular matter. The absence of cancer cells in the nodes suggests that any cells that may have been shed from Reagan's tumor had not reached the bloodstream...
...additional room. The house is lovely; it sits on a hill just below his mother's house in Ono. He says that one improves one's house as one improves one's life, and that when you die, you must leave both house and life in as good shape as possible. All this, he explains, is part of the Japanese way of thinking. That all things are transitory, and that their value derives from the fact that they shine brightly before they pass away. For this reason, says Kawamoto, one must keep track of one's experiences...
Ryan added that “the course was in pretty rough shape...