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...native Spanish speaker and a fifth-generation Texan, Baldwin said that the chance to return to his Texas roots played a significant role in his acceptance of the university’s offer...
...beautiful youngsters step on the stage clad in Spanish-like garb, the room went silent. The pair strikes their first pose and when Juan and Gennaro’s “España Cañí” starts playing, they begin a paso doble. With the man moving as the matador and the woman flowing as his red cape, the two weave a passionate dance of give and take, push and pull. It ends with a stellar lift as he raises her above his shoulders while her body is contorted into a ring-like shape...
...modeled on the crown-backed trading houses of England, Portugal and Holland, whose empires themselves followed a continuum stretching back to the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia. He contends that the silver and gold bullion mined in Mexico and Peru and shipped across oceans in galleons by the conquering Spanish preceded the convertible currencies and credit cards that now keep the world's economy ticking. NGOs like Human Rights Watch, defending the rights of Latino or Chinese workers, are upholding, Chanda says, the humanistic tradition of priests like the 16th century's Bartolomé de las Casas, who wrote scathing treatises...
...future, researchers in Michigan went straight to the past. Led by Dr. Howard Markel, director of the University of Michigan Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine, a team of public-health experts evaluated the U.S. response to the world's last great pandemic - the Spanish flu in 1918. The new report, published in the Aug. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed the public-health measures taken by 43 U.S. cities, all with populations greater than 100,000, during the six months between Sept. 1918 and Feb. 1919. Markel found that cities that...
...good news, considering that the U.S. has purchased only 26 million doses of the newly licensed H5N1 flu vaccines, enough to cover 13 million people in the event of a pandemic -but there's no guarantee that H5N1 will even be the bug in question. In 1918 the Spanish flu infected 20% of the world's population and killed 40 million people (a mortality rate of 2.5%), and 550,000 of those deaths were in the U.S. What the new study illuminates is the small print behind that big number: some cities got hit much harder than others, and there...