Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People are hungry: food is rationed, but there is almost none to buy. Factories are shut: there is no fuel to run machines, no raw materials to process. Harvests rot in the fields for want of distribution. We see no cars and few buses on the broad boulevards; people travel by bicycle, horse and buggy, or crammed aboard the occasional flatbed truck. There are swizzle sticks but no soap; no toilet paper, no plain paper either. By day a pall of smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some...
...Vegas, southeast of Havana, on which he must produce his government allotment of sugarcane. He seems content with Castro's policies. "Food is not a problem here," he says, patting his big stomach. He can sell some of his surplus peanuts, sweet potatoes, coffee, sheep and pigs. City friends travel 25 miles from the capital to barter for his vegetables and meat, but since he has no fertilizer, no pesticides and no electricity to pump water for irrigation, his production will not increase soon. He hopes private ownership will encourage other farmers to grow more, but he is dubious. "Cubans...
...Travel around the island for two weeks and the lasting impression is the same: Cuba may be falling apart, but Fidel is not falling with it. Through a combination of charisma, national pride and repression, he still holds the island's fate in his hands...
...nearly 300,000 refugees and immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. What seemed like a burden at the time, however, has become a business bonanza. Miami, once a town of tourists and retirees, is today being remade by its bilingual immigrants into a hemispheric crossroads for trade, travel and communications in the 21st century -- a sort of Hong Kong of the Americas...
Values, in fact, travel at the speed of fax; by now, almost half the world's Mormons live outside the U.S. A diversity of one culture quickly becomes a diversity of many: the "typical American" who goes to Japan today may be a third-generation Japanese American, or the son of a Japanese woman married to a California serviceman, or the offspring of a Salvadoran father and an Italian mother from San Francisco. When he goes out with a Japanese woman, more than two cultures are brought into play...