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In Outside the Beltway: Outrageous, if unsurprising.
Victims have faces too
From BBC NEWS Elad Wafa lives in Netanya, Israel. He is 27 years old and was born in Ethiopia. On the afternoon of 19 May 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber let off his explosives near the vegetable stall where Elad worked. Elad suffered severe injuries and is now paralysed from the lower back downwards. “I … Continue reading Victims have faces too
qotd
There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue in the comprehensive Porrua Spanish-Maya Dictionary but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen only by the Maya, proving beyond a doubt that when a language dies, six butterflies disappear from the consciousness of the earth. — Earl Shorris
Madrid
Madrid is full of shopping, and some hustle and bustle, and the sidewalk cafés, but they are not the relaxed cafés of Barcelona. Too many people hurrying by. Not enough snack food that I find edible: too many baby squids in their own ink. I can appreciate a country without eating all its food, I … Continue reading Madrid
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