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...spur people to do more and encourage billions around the world to mobilize themselves and show acts of heroism in the fight against the common enemy: the destruction of the environment. In my homeland, the Philippines, Odette Alcantara has been actively involved in the Zero Basura Olympics (basura is Spanish and Filipino for garbage), recycling, tree-planting, clearing waterways, rivers, lakes and seas, plus teach-ins, seminars and speeches to tell people the importance of protecting the environment, starting immediately in their own homes. For this reason we believe that Ms. Alcantara's accomplishments and her ongoing work deserve mention...
...read the article on the Spanish environment Minister, Cristina Narbona Ruiz. I agree that the Minister's policy to protect the Spanish coastline is laudable. However, as was widely commented on by the Spanish media, it is a fact that while she is demolishing a poor neighborhood on the seafront in Tenerife, she is allowing the construction of a building on Arosa Island in Galicia, just 20 m from the sea, where wealthy people will end up owning luxury flats. Consequently I believe she does not deserve to be on the list of heroes as her policies are not equal...
...clumsy pronunciation is so old school. You can now cross the language barrier with Lonely Planet's audio phrasebooks for mobile phones. Local linguists have recorded 600 phrases - "Do you have a room?" or "Can you recommend a bar?" - in 10 languages (Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Thai and Czech, with more promised soon). You simply play them through your phone's speakers. You can download the app onto iPhones (go to the App Store), BlackBerrys and any cell phone running the Java midp 2.0 platform or Windows Mobile. You can also buy the program from...
...Nuremberg trials. Italy took justice into its own hands by executing Mussolini and hanging him upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. France prosecuted its Vichy collaborators in a series of contentious trials that stretched into the 1990s. On Oct. 16, it was finally Spain's turn. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 33 years ago, but it was only this week that Judge Baltasar Garzón of the National Court declared him and his cronies guilty of crimes against humanity and authorized a long-awaited investigation into their misdeeds...
Your poignant, powerfully illustrated piece on tuberculosis reminded me of pictures from history books about the 1918 Spanish-flu outbreak [Oct. 13]. Why is the world still ignoring this deadly disease? Thank you, TIME, for reminding us that TB should be a greater medical priority than advances in cosmetic surgery. I hope the pharmaceutical industry can engineer new drugs against this killer. Aniee Sarkissian, GLENDALE, CALIF...