UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Can You Look Outside Your Paradigms? I remember an article written by a physics professor who had included the following question on an exam: “Explain how to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.” He presumably wanted the student to use atmospheric […]
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson There is great satisfaction in arriving at and making a contract that none of your competitors in a duplicate event managed to find. Such was the case in this deal played at the Lakeside Bridge Center in Riberas recently. North began proceedings with a bid of 1
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand Mexico’s Gift to Opera, Rolando Villazón I don’t know anything about opera, and accidentally proved it to my date a long time ago at a screening of Franco Zeffirelli’s La Traviata. Halfway through the movie, I whispered, “What a rip off. All they did was copy the plot of
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Editor’s PageBy Alejandro Grattan-DominguezGod Bless Our Four-legged Friends The two most often heard complaints by foreigners living here at Lakeside used to be about the callous and sometimes cruel treatment of animals, and the bureaucracy’s fondness of needless paperwork. The latter (as Jesus is said to have remarked about the poor) will perhaps always be
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STAY HEALTHY! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D. Internal Medicine & Geriatric Specialist(Edited by Maria Montenegro) Genetically Modified Foods What is GMO (Genetic Modified Organisms)? GMO involves a laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of crops and animals. As of late 2009, the U.S. did not require foods to be labeled
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I thought the Feb. 10, “Thunder on the Right” column by Paul Jackson, was a rather petty attack on non-believers. It seems that one of the simple religious beliefs he claims to value is a strong loathing for people who don’t share his views on religion. Jackson makes
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What Ever Happened To …? By Ruth Ross Merrimer (Ed. Note: For many years, Ruth wrote our “Lakeside Living” column and was one of the original members of the Ajijic Writers Group. She also wrote a novel, Champagne and Tortillas, about the A-List social set here at Lakeside.) I got my first look
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THE PAJARETE By Mel Goldberg On one side of the narrow highway halfway between Jocotopec to Acatlan is a dirt patch where a woman and three cows stand in the shade of a white tarp. A laborer puts dry chocolate and sugar into his half liter container and adds cane alcohol. The woman milks
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Mexico’s Third Gender By Herbert W. Piekow The first time I went to the Oaxacan town of Juchitán I observed a group of soccer players with their skirts hiked up, playing hard against a team of men in tight shorts. I watched as the men’s team raced across the field when one of the
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LISTEN UP—THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN El Ojo De Lago wishes to welcome our new police chief, Captain Reynol Contreras Munoz. In a recent interview, Captain Contreras shared his opinion on a number of issues that impact life at Lakeside. Captain Contreras was an Air Traffic Controller in the Mexican Air Force for
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