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...more than two years, Mexicans have endured the imposition of one austerity package after another. They have watched government food subsidies shrink, unemployment rise, the value of the peso sink (it slid to an all-time low last week of 372 to the U.S. dollar). Yet now, on top of such belt tightening, Mexico City and four coastal states need major reconstruction programs that will consume already tight reserves of capital. "It is a tremendous psychological blow," says M. Delal Baer, an expert on Mexico at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "You begin to feel that...
...learn about Greenpeace's plans for a floating protest against France's nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa this autumn. Although Tricot confirmed that there had been a French espionage mission in New Zealand, he absolved the government of responsibility for giving any direct order to sink the Greenpeace ship. Later, however, he admitted that he could have been "duped" by the officials he interrogated...
...great ship was considered unsinkable. She had a double bottom and 16 watertight compartments. Mrs. Albert Caldwell later remembered that she had asked one of the deckhands whether the Titanic was truly unsinkable. "Yes, lady," he had said, "God himself could not sink this ship." With that air of invincibility, the Titanic set forth on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. Her route lay from Southampton, England, to Cherbourg, France, Queenstown, Ireland, and New York City. She carried 2,207 people, and lifeboats for only...
...failing local college - is finally abandoned after a bear kills a student, and the town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly contest, starting on Groundhog Day, where you bet on the day and hour a 1949 Ford will sink through the ice and into the lake. "Left to our own devices," writes Keillor, "we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes...
Each workday morning at 9, outside a red brick building in Crewe, England, a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit waits, washed and polished, for three people. As they are chauffeured deep into the Cheshire countryside, the passengers quiz the driver about the car, watch the passing hedgerows or simply sink blissfully into the leathery smells. After 60 circuitous miles, they return to the building and take a lingering look as the $98,000 sedan collects three more of Rolls' 3,800 employees for the pleasure trip they are entitled to under company policy. "I knew I'd ride in a Rolls...