Word: jacobo
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...asked my cabbie, Jacobo, 57 if he had heard there was an influenza advisory. He said, "This is Acapulco, nothing like that happens here, we might have a few problems with the drug gangs, but do not worry, lady, this does not affect you people." I pressed him and he said: "the flu would scare the tourists and we cannot afford that, a week from now we have the Tourism Fair, we need the money. No, we do not have the flu here. Here we have open air, sea breezes, there can be nothing like that here. Do not believe...
...while Sao Paulo is the best example, it is not the only one: All across Brazil, homicide rates are tumbling. "For the first time in Brazilian history we have had three years in which the measures of fatal violence have fallen," says Julio Jacobo Waiselfisz, author of the Violence Map, a nationwide study of homicide rates. "There is light at the end of the tunnel...
...always been part of a large family. The oldest of eight siblings, she is now a mother of four, from José Maria, 13, to Quique, 15 months. "We're not standard," she says with a laugh, sitting in her central Madrid living room as her two middle ones, Jacobo, 9, and Gracita, 7, carry in a plate of home-baked cookies. "People at work say, 'There's no way you have four kids!' " Her half-day job as a youth counselor allows her to drop off the kids at school and pick them up, and she recently turned down...
Faced with overwhelming support for Alfonsin and his government, the mutineers surrendered and Barreiro fled. The aborted mutiny was a triumph for Alfonsin, who showed that he was firmly in charge. Says Author Jacobo Timerman, who was tortured during the military rule: "If the crisis was a ten, Alfonsin, being the shrewd politician he is, made it into a thousand. It was the first time in 60 years that there was a political and civilian answer to a military provocation...
...Ekkelkamp, a middle-A MIDDLE-aged Dutch woman, has a gap between her two front teeth. Norwegian toddler Ragnar Bang Ericsson has a small triangular birthmark on his lower back. Jacobo Hassan, a Mexican man, has an Ishaped scar below his right knee. Chie Machida, a Japanese woman, wears a pink-jeweled navel ring...