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November 20, 1975: Generalismo Francisco Franco, ruler of fascist Spain for 36 years, dies...
...boost to efforts to use the Internet as a ballot box, to avoid the crippling challenge of trying to accurately count, or recount, ballots that have been clumsily cast. Elsewhere, such options may emerge as a means of overcoming the kinds of bullying tactics that can mar an election. Spain, for example, may allow voters in the troubled Basque region to cast their ballots over the Net from home to bypass intimidation from separatists...
...most popular politician in Spain, always outpointing his boss, Prime Minister José María Aznar, in opinion polls. Jaime Mayor Oreja has a deep, calming voice, is rarely ruffled and, during five years as Interior Minister, had a good record as overseer of police actions against the Basque terrorist group ETA. A Basque himself, he seemed to be the perfect pick when Aznar made him the Popular Party's candidate for 'lehendakari', or president, of the autonomous northern region in the May 13 elections. Most commentators agreed, especially after the PP and the Socialists joined in an informal...
...That's a trend being repeated across Europe, according to anecdotal evidence from doctors. Each month, the brothers Viel criss-cross Europe to work at clinics in Norway, Italy and Ireland. Corporación Dermoestetica, a Spanish group with 32 centers in Spain, this year will open clinics in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. "There is no doubt that cosmetic surgery is growing in popularity," says Giulio Injianni, secretary of the German Association of Plastic Surgeons. "People are more confident about this kind of medicine because of media exposure." He says his own patient load has doubled in the past five...
...students who attend CAL-Dows High School, situated just down the hall, are a bunch worth emulating. The older students juggle calculus and physiology classes with school trips to Spain and statewide jazz-band competitions. Some make time every day to tutor first-graders in math or reading. Among last year's graduates, 98% went on to college...