Articles from Americas (English Edition) (January 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A brush with Mexican history.	Murphy-Larronde, Suzanne		648
A grand year for Garcia Marquez.	Pena, Hector		1764
A wild idea for science.	Mayer, Wayne E.		573
Bedeviled in La Vega.	Murphy-Larronde, Suzanne		2422
Better on the Web.	Gonzalez, Julio	Letter to the editor	83
Books in the barrios.	Stalker, Ian		586
Chichen Itza: a place of wonder by any measure, this architectural complex on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula expresses the worldview of the Maya with mathematical precision.	Herrera, Adriana	Travel narrative	3063
From the editor.		Editorial	447
Getting an early start.			389
Marking a decade in grand style.	Snow, K. Mitchell		1047
Partnership for education: in El Salvador, a program implemented by the Pan American Development Foundation supports schools and helps young people envision new possibilities for the future.	Del Toro, Natasha		2576
Playing a role in democracy.			440
Rediscovering Gabriela Mistral: a new trove of the poet's papers promises to give researchers fresh insights into Latin America's first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.	Montesinos, Elisa	Biography	3536
Ruben Blades: Minister of Salsa: better known outside his country as a singer-songwriter and actor, this Renaissance man today speaks from a political stage, as Panama's Minister of Tourism.	Balaguer, Alejandro	Interview	3488
Saving trees with fish.	Hardman, Chris		611
Secretary General Honored.		Brief article	225
Size matters.	Goodpasture, Dianne Blair	Letter to the editor	80
The mothers' poems.	Mistral, Gabriela	Reprint	284
The value of literature.	Perales, Jaime		1193
Through the eyes of the condor: in his latest project for the National Geographic Society, photographer Robert Haas spent over two years looking at Latin America from on high, with a view to capturing the region's soul.	Haas, Robert B.	Speech	1042
Window on the Hemisphere.	Golladay, Anthony	Letter to the editor	173