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Mexico City's abortion-rights law is upheld (kansascity.com)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:52:00 GMT

Mexico's Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to abortion-rights legislation on Thursday in a decision likely to reverberate across the rest of largely Roman Catholic Latin America.

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Mexico: Oil reform and the municipalities (Angry White Kid)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:24:13 GMT

... country. At the event a serene but firm discussion was staged, between mayors from the PRI*, PRD*, PAN* and Green Party* - with the presence of quality representatives from Congress - that not only allowed us to define the serious deficiencies that everyone suffers in trying to fulfill their work in government, but in particular, the burdens that oil activity produces and the scant support it has...

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'Babylon A.D.': Add Another Mangled Movie to the List (Wired)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:01:00 GMT

... all-American creep show was one thing. Being hired to oversee a massive sci-fi epic filmed in Mexico under increasingly strained circumstances was another, which may explain why David Lynch got the boot from producer Dino De Laurentiis. The studio released a 137-minute flop and Lynch distanced himself from the project, which would later get re-edited without his cooperation as a whopping...

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Brown-Forman Fails At Farming; Furniture Breaks Williams-Sonoma; CAT Orders Chinese Food (Stocks to Watch Today)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:22:59 GMT

... from vendors, but its 2007 acquisition of Herradura tequila included crops of agave plants. The company took losses when some of those crops succumbed to weather, insects or disease. (Throughout Mexico, agave production has been down dramatically amidst a steep decline in prices for the plants, which has prompted many farmers in that country to switch to more-profitable corn crops instead...

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Europe Markets: Autos pressured again in downbeat Europe (Market Watch)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:19:00 GMT

MoreSEARCHWelcome, please . • • • latest newsEUROPE MARKETSAutos pressured again in lower EuropeCrude-oil futures up again; Natixis, Swiss Life shares fallBy Sarah Turner, MarketWatchLast update: 4:19 a.m. EDT Aug. 28, 2008LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares edged lower on Thursday morning as another uptick in oil weighed again on autos and amid more bad news from the financial sector. The pan-European...

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Words speak louder than actions for LPGA (LA Times)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:14:58 GMT

... been won by players who were born outside the U.S.The trend continued this year. Lorena Ochoa of Mexico won the Kraft Nabisco, Yani Tseng of Taiwan won the LPGA Championship, Inbee Park of South Korea won the U.S. Women's Open and Ji-Yai Shin of South Korea won the Women's British Open.While the LPGA Tour's deputy commissioner, Libby Galloway, said the vast majority of the international...

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Europe Markets: Shares in Europe gain as energy firms rise (Market Watch)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:05:00 GMT

European shares turn higher, lifted by energy companies and miners as crude prices strengthens through the day.

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Correction on PEMEX and the union (The Mex Files)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:00:14 GMT

David Agren left a correction to my 20-August post (”Throwing the bums out…“) pointing out that the dissidents within PEMEX are not likely PAN supporters. They could be underwritten by PRD, which would still make sense, the point being that union fights are proxy wars between various political factions. David knows more about the chincanery of [...]

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Explore : Crises and conflicts, PRD, PRI

Europe Markets: Shares in Europe decline as oil rises (Market Watch)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:59:00 GMT

EUROPE MARKETSEuropean shares decline as oil advancesAutomakers, banks move lower; Heineken shares climb after profit jumpsBy Sarah Turner, MarketWatchLast update: 3:59 a.m. EDT Aug. 27, 2008LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares weakened in early trading on Wednesday, as an uptick in oil prices pressured stocks sensitive to consumer spending such as automaker Daimler.The pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx...

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A Dengue Vaccine by December? (The Temas Blog)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:17:48 GMT

... fever”). The more virulent form, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), can kill you.. According to the Pan American Health Organization (), as of the first week in August, there have been 559,667 cases reported in LAC this year, of these 14,547 were DHF. 472,997 of the dengue cases were in Brazil alone, 9,957 of which were DHF. Venezuela has reported 20,601 dengue cases, Mexico 16,285, Colombia...

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Michael Melcher: It's All Hillary's Fault! (The Huffington Post)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:22:27 GMT

... Ohio and Florida, it's all Hillary's fault! If our party's dream of turning Colorado, Virginia and New Mexico from red to blue just doesn't pan out - it's all Hillary's fault! If two-thirds of white men vote Republican this year, as they have done in election after election, don't blame the residual effects of 300 years of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow laws or some kind of weird white-male...

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Extra Time: M.L.S. Teams Hit Road for Respect (New York Times)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:23:26 GMT

A little traveling music, please. News and features from around the world of soccer and the Web.More on Soccer The New England Revolution jetted Sunday from Toronto to Port of Spain, Trinidad, for a game against Joe Public. The Revolution is in the midst of a stretch of 11 games in 38 days — basically two games a week.The Houston Dynamo’s season began last February in Hawaii in the first Pan-Pacific...

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Blog: The Cuban boxing mystique? (Miami Herlad)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:52:57 GMT

I come not to bury Cuban boxers, but to praise them.For the first time since the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, the Cuban boxing team will go home without a gold medal in boxing. Aside from boycotting the 1984 and 1988 Games, Cuba has dominated the boxing competition.It was difficult to call Cuba the boxing favorite before the Games in Beijing because it lost five gold medalists from its...

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Omega Release Phelps Digital Destiny Photo (SwimNews Online - Daily News)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT

... years, throughout the development of technology that was first tested in competition back the the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1967. On the first day of that competition, the system failed and Mark Spitz set a world record on a manual hand-held basis to a tenth of a second. The day after, on July 27, 1967, Ken Walsh (USA) became the first swimmer to set a world record officially registered...

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Mexican Barbequed Skirt Steak Recipe (Genealogy@Bellaonline.com)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:43:46 GMT

Arrachera is a great way to use inexpensive skirt steak. As the meat is marinated overnight, it becomes tender. Thinly slicing it across the grain also makes the meat all the more enjoyable. It's easy to buy here in Mexico, whether from the local butcher, or sealed in its marinade in the supermarket meat department. Check your local Hispanic stores to see if they offer it - or make it yourself...

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Mayhill Fowler: New Mexico Young Republicans Work To Change The Party (The Huffington Post)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:44:44 GMT

The voters of southern New Mexico -- I would like to say simply "New Mexicans," but that doesn't sound right in our immigration-fraught climate -- are hungry to meet the presidential candidates. "We matter, even if we are small-town America," Susana Martinez, the local district attorney, says as she introduces John McCain Wednesday. Her fellow citizens are frustrated that by the end of summer...

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Down, but not out: Cuban boxing survives defections - Feature (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:08:41 GMT

... up in Hamburg, hired by the firm Arena Box Promotion run by Ahmet Oener. Months later, during the Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro, it was the great pride of Cuban boxing, Guillermo Rigondeaux, who starred alongside colleague Erislandy Lara, in a curious attempt to defect that went wrong. Both finally returned to Havana. Rigondeaux is now in Cuba but has become a pariah in the communist country's...

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Analysis: Iraq deal hovers over campaign (Boston Globe)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:36:21 GMT

Analysis: Iraq deal hovers over campaign Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. gestures during a town hall meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at the Pan American Center on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) By Charles Babington Associated Press Writer / August 22, 2008 | | | | Text size – + Republican presidential candidate...

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In Washington there will be screams (The Mex Files)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:30:36 GMT

I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet, but there may be a huge change coming on the crime/justice/security front. Somewhat true to form (and ghoulishly), Televisa and PAN political spokesmen seized on the recent kidnappping and murder of a milionaire’s teen-aged son to foment demonstrations and suggest that insecurity and kidnapping are somehow more serious [...]

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McCain not sure how many houses he and wife own (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:39:00 GMT

Last updated August 21, 2008 6:39 a.m. PTMcCain not sure how many houses he and wife own Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks during a town hall meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at the Pan American Center on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) WASHINGTON -- Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant...

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