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By Susan Burke March November 6, 2018 — CNN reports that 17 children in the Orthodox Jewish community in the Williamsburg and Borough Park neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York have been diagnosed with measles. Infected children range from just seven months to four years — many hospitalized with complications. As of Sunday, November 11, Israel’s Ministry...
Along with carbohydrates and fats, protein is a necessary nutrient, instrumental in building, maintaining, and repairing body tissues. A protein’s quality is determined by the content of nine essential amino acids, “essential” meaning that they can only be obtained from the diet. Amino acids are also known as the building blocks of protein, and all...
Cuenca Days are the most exciting and lively time of year in our adopted city. Cuenca’s independence from Spain is celebrated on November 3, and the weather is typically fine — perfect for strolling around El Centro and enjoying artists, musicians, and dance. Of course, what would be a holiday without the food! Street food...
Editor’s note: This is the third in a multi-part series on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. Click to read part 1 and part 2. By Louis Bourgious We discussed in past segments of this series the first two “Faces of Freedom,” these being Freedom from The Past and Freedom from the World. Now we are...
Scuffling Footsteps My feet scuff quiet, quite unnoticed, amongst the white stones, pale light ghosting. Not sun of day, nor moon of night, between perhaps, I’m filled with fright. Time elusive, not mine to count, waste not a drop, close tight the spout. Shadows dancing entwined by weeds, dark thoughts, dark thoughts, I dare not...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on notable ingredients native to the Americas. In Part 1 we learned that archaeologists have discovered potato remains that date back to 500 B.C.E. in the ancient ruins of Peru and Chile. Today’s column traces the journey of the potato to Europe, where the French fried potato was...
By Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA What’s good for each of us isn’t automatically good for the planet. So says a new study of diet, food waste, and environmental sustainability. “Eat more fruits and veggies” lies at the heart of a lot of advice for healthy eating. But Zach Conrad and colleagues found that more fruits...
As a certified introvert living alone for the past 20 years I have read a lot of books, even more after moving to Cuenca seven years ago and buying a Kindle. It is so nice to see a title, want it, and within a minute or two, have it. I have quite often read a...
By Christine Stirparo The other day I was reading an interview with Mark Schatzker, the author of The Dorito Effect. Now full disclosure, I haven’t read his book or any reviews or even a synopsis of it so I can’t speak to what he talks about in the book. But I did find what he said in the...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a multi-part series on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. By Louis Bourgeois The first “Face of Freedom” that we discussed in part 2 of this series is freedom from the past. We go a little deeper here in what could be called Freedom from the Present, or more...
Author’s note: This is the first of three columns on vegetables and fruits. In the first column, I tackle the popular “juicing” fad. The second tackles the perennial question — what is the best way to consume produce — raw or cooked?The third column reviews what you should know about buying fresh produce and top...
I landed on the shores of what is now Ecuador with Francisco Pizzaro and Hernando DeSoto in 1532. At that time, I was twenty-two years old and hoping to gain fame and great wealth. I believed by accompanying these men and the other soldiers into the interior of the country, my chances for success would...

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Week of March 24

“They are pressuring me to resign so they can remove me from office,” denounced Verónica Abad, Vice President of the Republic.

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Ecuador Navigates Economic Challenges with IMF Agreement Looming.

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“Since when does thinking differently mean being a traitor?” Pierina Correa questions in reference to the Tourism Law.

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