Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers were devising ingenious ways to isolate and identify disease genes in human DNA, and Wexler recalled a Huntington's meeting she attended in 1972. There a doctor reported the discovery of a group of interrelated Huntington's families, numbering in the thousands, who live along the shores of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. "At the time," says Nancy, "we all thought that this extended family was a fantastic resource for genetic research, but nobody knew how to formulate the right research." Wexler decided it was time...
...effects of the embargo without encouraging others to flee. The Administration shelved the suggestion, though it did launch a perfunctory effort to persuade Haiti's democratic neighbors to resettle some of the refugees. Belize agreed to take 100 boat people -- if they tested negative for the AIDS virus. Honduras, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago agreed to accept a total of 450 Haitians...
Though most of the 22,000 Yanomami Indians living in Stone Age conditions in South America are not aware of it, their survival has been a cause for conservationists and anthropologists for 20 years. Responding to their recent campaign, Venezuela in June set aside a 32,000-sq.-mi. preserve for the Yanomami...
...Fanny gyrates to a dance-club hit while recalling her Krazy Glue revenge on an unfaithful boyfriend. A punchy Peruvian ex-boxer, pressed to name a famous Hispanic, searches the blank canvas of his mind. "William Shakesperez," he intones. "He wrote Macho Do About Nothing and The Merchant of Venezuela...
Thais de Aguerrevere, a professor at the Catholic University of Andres Bullo in Venezuela, recounted the plight of university students frustrated by high enrollment and their own lack of proper educational backgrounds...