Five months after Chile's Constitutional Tribunal banned the government from providing emergency contraception in public clinics, the ''morning-after'' pill remains a simmering source of controversy here, despite polls that indicate support by a majority of the population.
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MEXICO CITY -- Many Mexicans reacted with shock and dismay when it was announced recently that nearly 70 percent of teachers had flunked a new nationwide test to measure whether they had the basic skills to be educators. I, for one, celebrated the news.
Hurricane Gustav triggered a killer landslide in Haiti, a spike in oil prices and fear throughout the Gulf Coast as forecasters said it is all but certain to grow into a major hurricane by this weekend.
The Cuban rocker whose biting profanity-laced lyrics against the Castro government has previously gotten him in trouble is now in detention and expected to face trial Friday, according to human rights groups in Havana.
Gustav stalled offshore Wednesday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil workers began leaving their rigs and New Orleans drew up evacuation plans as forecasters warned the storm could plow into the U.S. Gulf coast as a major hurricane.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections.
The only hospital within a 280-mile radius to offer state-of-the-art trauma care, Thomason in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso has become an unwilling treatment center of choice for law enforcement officials and others in the vicinity wounded in Mexico's drug turf battles.
A geologist by training, Joao Carlos Cavalcanti — who goes by J.C. — applied his knowledge and considerable gumption to discovering huge reserves of iron ore and other minerals in Brazil. Today he pegs his net worth at $1.2 billion, placing him among the 20 richest men in Brazil. Before this year is out, he vows to have $1 billion in liquid investments, to go with his 39 cars, 10 homes and two airplanes.
Elton Leme's garden is to bromeliads what St. Andrews is to golf or what Cooperstown is to baseball: a living shrine. He has discovered more than 300 species of bromeliad, the largest family of flowering plants endemic to the Western Hemisphere – including pineapple. No man alive has discovered as many.
Louisiana, Mississippi keeping eye on Gustav