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...main task of computer-network manager Mike Nisbet at Rheem Manufacturing in Montgomery, Ala., is to keep 500 PCs and laptops virus-free and humming. Last year he was haunted by another worry: averting an avalanche. The obsolete or trashed equipment that he and his staff routinely piled in a storage room was in a heap 6 ft. high and growing. "I was afraid someone might get hurt," he says...
They will see a more intimate side as well. A day of cooking can offer more insight into the local culture than a week's worth of museum visits. Cabrera began our session with a trip to a traditional market--not the main one most tourists visit--where we got to know local produce, taste handmade cheeses and meet the growers who supplied our ingredients. Later, as we prepped the two dozen items for a Oaxacan mole negro (chicken in a dark-brown spicy sauce), Cabrera explained its origins. The dish was developed during the Spanish colonial era and contains...
...hemispheric stability. But if Chavez can use his combination of financial clout and pan-Latin charisma to keep the Puerto Iguazu parties united, it would undoubtedly help raise his standing from an anti-U.S. firebrand to the sort of regional coalition-builder Latin America has never had. Alex Main, a former international relations advisor to Chavez, concurs: "This is the first time we've seen a real challenge to the unity of the new Latin American left, and to keep it together through all this would be a great achievement for him. He's already gotten away with things...
...members of the fledgling group. Nathan describes the sound as having “very firm jazz roots, but also a funkiness to it.” Nathan and four of his bandmates met through the Harvard Monday Jazz Band, a group that Nathan calls “the main jazz band on campus.” “There aren’t that many jazz musicians on campus,” explains Nathan, “so you sort of find each other out.” The group sees Arts First as an opportunity to share...
...agreement there would be in the cases you would pick for the court to hear and the cases I would pick,” Breyer said. He added that because of the specificity of the criteria used by the court, choosing which cases to review is fairly straightforward. The main criterion used by the court is whether a case would give “the country a uniform interpretation of federal law,” Breyer said. “We are not an error-correcting court.” Breyer also shed light into the justices’ secret...