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Home and Away

  • May 1, 2013
  • Parenting
  • Mei-Ling Hopgood
  • Volume 27
  • Page 72
  • Lexile: 1150, grade level(s): 9 10 11-12
... OF MEI-LING ... OF MEI-LING HOPGOOD ... her book, Hopgood tried out a slew of parenting ...
My 5-year-old, Sofia, likes peanut butter and bananas for breakfast but favors sweet-corn empanadas, Chinese egg noodles, or sushi at dinner. She and her sister enjoy their merienda, afternoon teatime, and sometimes sip bitter Argentine mate from a gourd. At Thanksgiving last year, we ate Korean kimchi and chapchae, along with turkey. There is an endless list of “different” things we do in our home, customs collected from our diverse histories, the places we've been, and the people we've


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My 5-year-old, Sofia, likes peanut butter and bananas for breakfast but favors sweet-corn empanadas, Chinese egg noodles, or sushi at dinner. She and her sister enjoy their merienda, afternoon teatime, and sometimes sip bitter Argentine mate from a gourd. At Thanksgiving last year, we ate Korean kimchi and chapchae, along with turkey.

There is an endless list of “different” things we do in our home, customs collected from our diverse histories, the places we've been, and the people we've...

Home and Away

  • May 1, 2013
  • Parenting School Years
  • Mei-Ling Hopgood
  • Volume 27
  • Page 68
  • Lexile: 1120, grade level(s): 9 10 11-12
... OF MEI-LING ... OF MEI-LING HOPGOOD ... her book, Hopgood tried out a slew of parenting ...
Not sure you're raising your kids the best way? Turns out there is no best way, or best place, or best continent, for that matter. Don't believe us? Meet five moms and dads whose parenting POVs prove that no matter the time zone or cultural background, family is a language spoken everywhere. My 5-year-old, Sofia, likes peanut butter and bananas for breakfast but favors sweet-corn empanadas, Chinese egg noodles, or sushi at dinner. She and her sister enjoy their merienda, afternoon
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Not sure you're raising your kids the best way? Turns out there is no best way, or best place, or best continent, for that matter. Don't believe us? Meet five moms and dads whose parenting POVs prove that no matter the time zone or cultural background, family is a language spoken everywhere.

My 5-year-old, Sofia, likes peanut butter and bananas for breakfast but favors sweet-corn empanadas, Chinese egg noodles, or sushi at dinner. She and her sister enjoy their merienda, afternoon

Latitude Adjustment

  • May 1, 2012
  • Parenting
  • Mei-Ling Hopgood
  • Volume 26
  • Page 46
  • Lexile: 970, grade level(s): 6 7
What the Argentines taught me about blowing off bedtime, and more parenting practices from around the globe. We are dining out with friends in Buenos Aires, sipping Malbec from short glass tumblers at a hole-in-the-wall steakhouse. The crowd is lively; the waiters charmingly surly. But what has really captivated our table is the family sitting to our right. It's 11:30 p.m., and a toddler and a baby are bouncing on laps as they gnaw on bread rolls. The Chinese POTTY TRAIN their
What the Argentines taught me about blowing off bedtime, and more parenting practices from around the globe. We are dining out with friends in Buenos Aires, sipping Malbec from short glass tumblers at a hole-in-the-wall steakhouse. The crowd is lively; the waiters charmingly surly. But what has really captivated our table is the family sitting to our right. It's 11:30 p.m., and a toddler and a baby are bouncing on laps as they gnaw on bread rolls. The Chinese POTTY TRAIN their
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What the Argentines taught me about blowing off bedtime, and more parenting practices from around the globe.

We are dining out with friends in Buenos Aires, sipping Malbec from short glass tumblers at a hole-in-the-wall steakhouse. The crowd is lively; the waiters charmingly surly. But what has really captivated our table is the family sitting to our right. It's 11:30 p.m., and a toddler and a baby are bouncing on laps as they gnaw on bread rolls.

The Chinese POTTY TRAIN

their

Latitude Adjustment

  • May 1, 2012
  • Parenting School Years
  • Mei-Ling Hopgood
  • Volume 26
  • Page 48
  • Lexile: 970, grade level(s): 6 7
What the Argentines taught me about blowing off bedtime, and more parenting practices from around the globe. We are dining out with friends in Buenos Aires, sipping Malbec from short glass tumblers at a hole-in-the-wall steakhouse. The crowd is lively; the waiters charmingly surly. But what has really captivated our table is the family sitting to our right. It's 11:30 p.m., and a toddler and a baby are bouncing on laps as they gnaw on bread rolls. French children are taught to EAT
What the Argentines taught me about blowing off bedtime, and more parenting practices from around the globe. We are dining out with friends in Buenos Aires, sipping Malbec from short glass tumblers at a hole-in-the-wall steakhouse. The crowd is lively; the waiters charmingly surly. But what has really captivated our table is the family sitting to our right. It's 11:30 p.m., and a toddler and a baby are bouncing on laps as they gnaw on bread rolls. French children are taught to EAT
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What the Argentines taught me about blowing off bedtime, and more parenting practices from around the globe.

We are dining out with friends in Buenos Aires, sipping Malbec from short glass tumblers at a hole-in-the-wall steakhouse. The crowd is lively; the waiters charmingly surly. But what has really captivated our table is the family sitting to our right. It's 11:30 p.m., and a toddler and a baby are bouncing on laps as they gnaw on bread rolls.

French children are taught to EAT

ART IMITATES LIFE IN POPULAR TELENOVELA

  • October 9, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1A
  • Lexile: 1370, grade level(s): >12
The hottest prime-time television program in Argentina is not your usual slapstick comedy, rowdy variety show with practically nude dancers or soap opera about a forbidden love affair. Montecristo, the telenovela that has Argentines glued to their sets weekday nights, explores darker themes: the atrocities of the military dictatorship here, including torture, murder and the kidnapping of children - with a few torrid love scenes thrown in for good measure. The show has
The hottest prime-time television program in Argentina is not your usual slapstick comedy, rowdy variety show with practically nude dancers or soap opera about a forbidden love affair. Montecristo, the telenovela that has Argentines glued to their sets weekday nights, explores darker themes: the atrocities of the military dictatorship here, including torture, murder and the kidnapping of children - with a few torrid love scenes thrown in for good measure. The show has


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The hottest prime-time television program in Argentina is not your usual slapstick comedy, rowdy variety show with practically nude dancers or soap opera about a forbidden love affair.

Montecristo, the telenovela that has Argentines glued to their sets weekday nights, explores darker themes: the atrocities of the military dictatorship here, including torture, murder

and the kidnapping of

children - with a few torrid love scenes thrown in for good measure.

The show has
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FILMMAKER AIMS LENS AT AIR SAFETY LAPSES

  • September 28, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1A
  • Lexile: 1280, grade level(s): 11-12
You might call Enrique Piñeyro the Michael Moore of Argentina's airspace. The first movie he directed, a dramatic re-creation of his experience as a whistle-blowing pilot and a deadly LAPA Airlines crash, became a local and international film-festival hit. His latest work accuses the Argentine air force of corruption, incompetence and negligence in managing the nation's civil-aviation system. A day after that movie's debut, the government announced that it was shifting that
You might call Enrique Piñeyro the Michael Moore of Argentina's airspace. The first movie he directed, a dramatic re-creation of his experience as a whistle-blowing pilot and a deadly LAPA Airlines crash, became a local and international film-festival hit. His latest work accuses the Argentine air force of corruption, incompetence and negligence in managing the nation's civil-aviation system. A day after that movie's debut, the government announced that it was shifting that
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You might call Enrique Piñeyro the Michael Moore of Argentina's airspace.

The first movie he directed, a dramatic re-creation of his experience as a whistle-blowing pilot and a deadly LAPA Airlines crash, became a local and international film-festival hit.

His latest work accuses the Argentine air force of corruption, incompetence and negligence in managing the nation's civil-aviation system. A day after that movie's debut, the government announced that it was shifting that

CONCERN FROM CHÁVEZ, MORALES

  • August 2, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • TYLER BRIDGES AND MEI-LING HOPGOOD, [email protected]
  • Page 12A
  • Lexile: 1280, grade level(s): 11-12
Latin Americans generally sympathized with Fidel Castro Tuesday, with reports that the Cuban leader had stepped aside to undergo surgery leading news coverage throughout the day. In a region where Castro tried - but failed - during the 1960s to export his Communist revolution, the Cuban leader is generally seen as an affectionate wise elder, especially at a time when President Bush is so widely disliked in the region. The strongest expressions of concern not surprisingly came from
Latin Americans generally sympathized with Fidel Castro Tuesday, with reports that the Cuban leader had stepped aside to undergo surgery leading news coverage throughout the day. In a region where Castro tried - but failed - during the 1960s to export his Communist revolution, the Cuban leader is generally seen as an affectionate wise elder, especially at a time when President Bush is so widely disliked in the region. The strongest expressions of concern not surprisingly came from
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Latin Americans generally sympathized with Fidel Castro Tuesday, with reports that the Cuban leader had stepped aside to undergo surgery leading news coverage throughout the day.

In a region where Castro tried - but failed - during the 1960s to export his Communist revolution, the Cuban leader is generally seen as an affectionate wise elder, especially at a time when President Bush is so widely disliked in the region.

The strongest expressions of concern not surprisingly came from

CASTRO AT ODDS WITH KIRCHNER

  • July 25, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 10A
  • Lexile: 1190, grade level(s): 10 11-12
The Argentine media is making much ado about the friction between Argentine President Néstor Kirchner and Fidel Castro last week over a dissident doctor who wants to leave Cuba. Kirchner took the opportunity to ask the Cuban leader, who was a guest at a meeting of the trade bloc Mercosur, to allow surgeon Hilda Molina, a one-time Castro ally, to leave Cuba to be with her children and grandchildren already in Argentina. According to the media covering the South American trade-bloc
The Argentine media is making much ado about the friction between Argentine President Néstor Kirchner and Fidel Castro last week over a dissident doctor who wants to leave Cuba. Kirchner took the opportunity to ask the Cuban leader, who was a guest at a meeting of the trade bloc Mercosur, to allow surgeon Hilda Molina, a one-time Castro ally, to leave Cuba to be with her children and grandchildren already in Argentina. According to the media covering the South American trade-bloc
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The Argentine media is making much ado about the friction between Argentine President Néstor Kirchner and Fidel Castro last week over a dissident doctor who wants to leave Cuba.

Kirchner took the opportunity to ask the Cuban leader, who was a guest at a meeting of the trade bloc Mercosur, to allow surgeon Hilda Molina, a one-time Castro ally, to leave Cuba to be with her children and grandchildren already in Argentina.

According to the media covering the South American trade-bloc

CASTRO PAYS SURPRISE VISIT TO AMERICAS TRADE SUMMIT

  • July 21, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD AND ROBERTO BATTAGLINO, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1A
  • Lexile: 1490, grade level(s): >12
... Miami Herald special correspondent Mei-Ling Hopgood reported from Buenos Aires. Roberto ... Miami Herald special correspondent Mei-Ling Hopgood reported from Buenos Aires. Roberto Battaglino, ...
In a rare trip abroad, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Argentina's second-largest city Thursday to join a summit of heads of state, boost his island's trade with South America and visit the childhood home of revolutionary hero Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara. The landing of Castro's plane about 8:20 p.m. was broadcast live on many local news channels, and hundreds of curious people waited around the city to catch a glimpse of the 79-year-old who has ruled Cuba since the revolution in 1959.
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In a rare trip abroad, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Argentina's second-largest city Thursday to join a summit of heads of state, boost his island's trade with South America and visit the childhood home of revolutionary hero Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara.

The landing of Castro's plane about 8:20 p.m. was broadcast live on many local news channels, and hundreds of curious people waited around the city to catch a glimpse of the 79-year-old who has ruled Cuba since the revolution in 1959.

CURTAINS RISE IN ARGENTINA

  • June 18, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1M
  • Lexile: 1280, grade level(s): 11-12
On the busy street of Boedo, in the immigrant neighborhood of the same name, there is a gray door between other unremarkable doors. Ring bell number four, Timbre 4. You will be met and led down a long, dimly lit cement hallway. In a back room, a kind of living room-turned makeshift theater and stage, a team of actors will tell you the darkly funny and sad story of the dysfunctional Coleman family. The acting team at Timbre 4 does not advertise, but word has spread. All their
On the busy street of Boedo, in the immigrant neighborhood of the same name, there is a gray door between other unremarkable doors. Ring bell number four, Timbre 4. You will be met and led down a long, dimly lit cement hallway. In a back room, a kind of living room-turned makeshift theater and stage, a team of actors will tell you the darkly funny and sad story of the dysfunctional Coleman family. The acting team at Timbre 4 does not advertise, but word has spread. All their
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On the busy street of Boedo, in the immigrant neighborhood of the same name, there is a gray door between other unremarkable doors.

Ring bell number four, Timbre 4. You will be met and led down a long, dimly lit cement hallway. In a back room, a kind of living room-turned makeshift theater and stage, a team of actors will tell you the darkly funny and sad story of the dysfunctional Coleman family.

The acting team at Timbre 4 does not advertise, but word has spread. All their

FOR LATIN AMERICA'S `HOUSEWIVES,' IT'S SAME SCRIPT, DIFFERENT CAST

  • June 12, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1A
  • Lexile: 1220, grade level(s): 11-12
``Silencio! . . . Acción!'' And the cameras roll on another episode of Desperate Housewives, the one where Gabrielle throws a fashion show featuring the femmes fatales of Wisteria Lane. Only in this version, the ladies actually are starring in a Moda Show in Buenos Aires, and their home is not Wisteria Lane, but the Manzanares neighborhood. Here, sexy Gabrielle Solis is Gabriela Solís and the saucy blond divorcée known to U.S. audiences as Edie Britt is a curvy brunette named Carla
``Silencio! . . . Acción!'' And the cameras roll on another episode of Desperate Housewives, the one where Gabrielle throws a fashion show featuring the femmes fatales of Wisteria Lane. Only in this version, the ladies actually are starring in a Moda Show in Buenos Aires, and their home is not Wisteria Lane, but the Manzanares neighborhood. Here, sexy Gabrielle Solis is Gabriela Solís and the saucy blond divorcée known to U.S. audiences as Edie Britt is a curvy brunette named Carla
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``Silencio! . . . Acción!''

And the cameras roll on another episode of Desperate Housewives, the one where Gabrielle throws a fashion show featuring the femmes fatales of Wisteria Lane.

Only in this version, the ladies actually are starring in a Moda Show in Buenos Aires, and their home is not Wisteria Lane, but the Manzanares neighborhood. Here, sexy Gabrielle Solis is Gabriela Solís and the saucy blond divorcée known to U.S. audiences as Edie Britt is a curvy brunette named Carla

MIXED EMOTIONS

  • May 21, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 13D
The angst is spreading. Less than a month until the World Cup opens, soccer-mad Argentines are asking for time off from work, buying new TVs to watch the games, saving money for celebrations and biting their fingernails over the prospects for their national team. Taxi drivers and tour guides routinely ask foreign visitors: Whose side are you on? All over the world, soccer fans are discussing their teams' rosters, placing bets and planning trips and house parties for the
The angst is spreading. Less than a month until the World Cup opens, soccer-mad Argentines are asking for time off from work, buying new TVs to watch the games, saving money for celebrations and biting their fingernails over the prospects for their national team. Taxi drivers and tour guides routinely ask foreign visitors: Whose side are you on? All over the world, soccer fans are discussing their teams' rosters, placing bets and planning trips and house parties for the
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The angst is spreading.

Less than a month until the World Cup opens, soccer-mad Argentines are asking for time off from work, buying new TVs to watch the games, saving money for celebrations and biting their fingernails over the prospects for their national team.

Taxi drivers and tour guides routinely ask foreign visitors: Whose side are you on?

All over the world, soccer fans are discussing their teams' rosters, placing bets and planning trips and house parties for the

Inside Peru - When school's done, boy heads for beach

  • May 9, 2006
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD
  • Page E10
  • Lexile: 940, grade level(s): 5 6
... MEI-LING HOPGOOD / Cox ... HOPGOOD / Cox ...
Chorrillos, Peru -- After school, 13-year-old Franki Sototapia does his homework and heads for the beach. The fishermen of Chorrillos (pronounced choh-REE-yohs) are there sewing nets and rowing tiny boats. "They share the fish they bring in," Franki says. "They teach you new things" and pay him to fish. His mom sells seviche, a seafood, at the beach. His dad drives a taxi in nearby Lima, the capital. For fun, Franki plays soccer and goes to little restaurants called
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Chorrillos, Peru -- After school, 13-year-old Franki Sototapia does his homework and heads for the beach. The fishermen of Chorrillos (pronounced choh-REE-yohs) are there sewing nets and rowing tiny boats.



"They share the fish they bring in," Franki says. "They teach you new things" and pay him to fish.

His mom sells seviche, a seafood, at the beach. His dad drives a taxi in nearby Lima, the capital.

For fun, Franki plays soccer and goes to little restaurants called

DIG IT! - For a boy in Argentina, weekends in the desert mean searching for and studying dinosaur fossils

  • May 1, 2006
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD
  • Page D6
  • Lexile: 900, grade level(s): 5 6
... MEI-LING HOPGOOD / ... HOPGOOD / ...
Neuquen, Argentina -- How's this for a weekend hobby? Santiago Calvo, age 9, hunts dinosaurs. During the week, he does the regular stuff a kid in Argentina does: He goes to school, plays computer games and hangs out with friends. But on most Fridays, Santiago and his dad drive 55 miles from their home in Neuquen (new-KEN) to a desert area of Patagonia. Patagonia includes the southern halves of Argentina and Chile. It's bigger than Texas and California combined and once was a
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Neuquen, Argentina -- How's this for a weekend hobby? Santiago Calvo, age 9, hunts dinosaurs.



During the week, he does the regular stuff a kid in Argentina does: He goes to school, plays computer games and hangs out with friends.

But on most Fridays, Santiago and his dad drive 55 miles from their home in Neuquen (new-KEN) to a desert area of Patagonia. Patagonia includes the southern halves of Argentina and Chile. It's bigger than Texas and California combined and once was a

BIGGEST BEEF-EATERS ARE URGED: PUT IT ASIDE

  • April 4, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1A
  • Lexile: 1260, grade level(s): 11-12
... MEI-LING HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD CHOICE MEAT: This ... HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD CHOICE MEAT: This ...
The president of the world's top beef-eating nation wants his people to do the unthinkable. He wants Argentines to stop eating so much beef. President Néstor Kirchner has all but cut off red meat exports and called on citizens to reduce their consumption until prices reverse their sharp increase. ``If meat is expensive, you can lower the prices,'' Kirchner told supporters in Buenos Aires recently. ``May the people help me so that all Argentines have access [to meat].''
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The president of the world's top beef-eating nation wants his people to do the unthinkable.

He wants Argentines to stop eating so much beef.

President Néstor Kirchner has all but cut off red meat exports and called on citizens to reduce their consumption until prices reverse their sharp increase.

``If meat is expensive, you can lower the prices,'' Kirchner told supporters in Buenos Aires recently. ``May the people help me so that all Argentines have access [to meat].''

SOUP KITCHEN FINDS HOME IN RICH AREA

  • March 25, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 13A
  • Lexile: 1360, grade level(s): >12
... MEI-LING HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD MEALS FOR THE POOR: ... HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD MEALS FOR THE POOR: A soup ... MEI-LING HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD LEADER: Raúl ...
A spat over a bar has led to a new, controversial occupant in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires: a soup kitchen. Earlier this month, a disgruntled landowner decided to hand over one of his prime sidewalk locations in the heart of Puerto Madero to a militant socialist group called the Independent Movement of Retirees and the Unemployed. Puerto Madero, a series of docks and brick warehouses that were part of Buenos Aires' thriving port in the 1880s, is now one of
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A spat over a bar has led to a new, controversial occupant in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires: a soup kitchen.

Earlier this month, a disgruntled landowner decided to hand over one of his prime sidewalk locations in the heart of Puerto Madero to a militant socialist group called the Independent Movement of Retirees and the Unemployed.

Puerto Madero, a series of docks and brick warehouses that were part of Buenos Aires' thriving port in the 1880s, is now one of

ON LOCATION IN BUENOS AIRES

  • March 11, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1C
  • Lexile: 1250, grade level(s): 11-12
OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL HAS BECOME A HOT SPOT FOR FILM PRODUCTIONS, ESPECIALLY COMMERCIALS The Xbox360 ``Jump in'' commercial could be based in any downtown, with kids and adults blasting each other with water balloons from graffiti-covered cement bridges and gray buildings. But look closely and you'll see the name of a Buenos Aires church scrawled on the wall. This Argentine capital has become the latest Latin-American hot spot for film
OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL HAS BECOME A HOT SPOT FOR FILM PRODUCTIONS, ESPECIALLY COMMERCIALS The Xbox360 ``Jump in'' commercial could be based in any downtown, with kids and adults blasting each other with water balloons from graffiti-covered cement bridges and gray buildings. But look closely and you'll see the name of a Buenos Aires church scrawled on the wall. This Argentine capital has become the latest Latin-American hot spot for film
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OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL HAS BECOME A HOT SPOT FOR FILM PRODUCTIONS, ESPECIALLY COMMERCIALS



The Xbox360 ``Jump in'' commercial could be based in any downtown, with kids and adults blasting each other with water balloons from graffiti-covered cement bridges and gray buildings.

But look closely and you'll see the name of a Buenos Aires church scrawled on the wall.

This Argentine capital has become the latest Latin-American hot spot for film

ARGENTINE MEDIA FEEL GOVERNMENT SQUEEZE

  • January 18, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 1A
  • Lexile: 1420, grade level(s): >12
... MEI-LING HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD MEDIA UNDER ... HOPGOOD/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD MEDIA UNDER PRESSURE: ...
When a provincial newspaper reported on a corruption scandal, the state government cut off its advertising. And when a well-known journalist's national TV show was canceled, he blamed the decision on economic pressures from Argentina's federal government. Free press and civic activists here are expressing growing concern about subtle government censorship, especially as President Néstor Kirchner's administration has grown in power. A recent survey of journalists here said financial
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When a provincial newspaper reported on a corruption scandal, the state government cut off its advertising. And when a well-known journalist's national TV show was canceled, he blamed the decision on economic pressures from Argentina's federal government.

Free press and civic activists here are expressing growing concern about subtle government censorship, especially as President Néstor Kirchner's administration has grown in power. A recent survey of journalists here said financial

SATELLITE TO PROVIDE BETTER FORECASTS

  • January 17, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 10A
  • Lexile: 1420, grade level(s): >12
The U.S. government will shift the orbit of one of its weather satellites to help South America better cope with natural disasters, U.S. officials announced in Argentina Monday. U.S. satellites monitor all of the Americas in good weather, offering images of North America and parts of Central America every 15 minutes and South America every 30 minutes. But when a hurricane hits the United States, the monitors concentrate on the northern regions and much of South America is left with
The U.S. government will shift the orbit of one of its weather satellites to help South America better cope with natural disasters, U.S. officials announced in Argentina Monday. U.S. satellites monitor all of the Americas in good weather, offering images of North America and parts of Central America every 15 minutes and South America every 30 minutes. But when a hurricane hits the United States, the monitors concentrate on the northern regions and much of South America is left with
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The U.S. government will shift the orbit of one of its weather satellites to help South America better cope with natural disasters, U.S. officials announced in Argentina Monday.

U.S. satellites monitor all of the Americas in good weather, offering images of North America and parts of Central America every 15 minutes and South America every 30 minutes. But when a hurricane hits the United States, the monitors concentrate on the northern regions and much of South America is left with

A REAL FIND FOR FOSSILS

  • January 2, 2006
  • Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • MEI-LING HOPGOOD, Special to The Miami Herald
  • Page 6A
  • Lexile: 1110, grade level(s): 9 10 11-12
... BY MEI-LING HOPGOOD/MIAMI HERALD STAFF DIGGING IT: During ... BY MEI-LING HOPGOOD/MIAMI HERALD STAFF DIGGING IT: During one of ...
Jorge Calvo walks the dusty terrain slowly, eyes downcast, combing the red dirt of Argentina's desert for bones. He does not have to look far. Calvo spots some gray chips. Bits of dinosaur fossils, the scientist says. Just yards away, massive vertebraes of what may be a new species remain partly excavated. Nearby, the rib of a smaller prehistoric beast protrudes from the rocks. For now, Calvo leaves them. There are many more dinosaur remains in this part of west-central Argentina
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Jorge Calvo walks the dusty terrain slowly, eyes downcast, combing the red dirt of Argentina's desert for bones. He does not have to look far.

Calvo spots some gray chips. Bits of dinosaur fossils, the scientist says. Just yards away, massive vertebraes of what may be a new species remain partly excavated. Nearby, the rib of a smaller prehistoric beast protrudes from the rocks.

For now, Calvo leaves them. There are many more dinosaur remains in this part of west-central Argentina

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