12 results for "Pia Lopez, Associate editor"
Crossing Borders: Worldwide, young people yearn for jobs
Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 12:00 AMOut of school and out of a job. Disconnected. Stuck. A generation at risk. A scarred generation. Generation jobless. The limbo generation. "Juventud Sin Futuro" – Youth Without a Future. Rise of the NEETs – young people Not i...
Crossing Borders: Decades after guns fell silent, Spain's wounds await healing
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMInternational travel is more than sightseeing, a planned itinerary or guide-organized interactions. It is about serendipity, experiencing the unexpected.
Crossing Borders: North Korea's provocations meant to test Asia's leaders
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 12:00 AMHopes that North Korea's new, young leader Kim Jong Un might usher in a new era of openness and reform in that erratic, repressive country now seem a distant mirage. It disappeared with North Korea's detonation of a nuclear device underg...
Crossing Borders: Microloans help women lift their families out of poverty
Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 12:00 AMNearly half of the world's population – more than 3 billion people – lives on less than $2.50 a day.
Crossing borders: Sub-Saharan Africa is focus of efforts to defeat a killer
Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 12:00 AMThis is Ann. … She drinks blood! Her full name is Anopheles Mosquito and she's dying to meet you!
Crossing borders: California tries to cultivate green roots with Chiapas
Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 1:00 AMChiapas, Mexico's southernmost state, is a remote frontier, the gateway to Mayan ruins, chilly highland forests and steamy rain forest jungle.
Pia Lopez: Lack of trust is barrier to stable Mideast
Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 12:00 AMMore than three decades ago this month, the shah of Iran was overthrown, and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ushered in a Shiite theocracy. Nine months later, Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 hostages, holding them...
Pia Lopez: Mali deserves more than military response
Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 12:00 AMMali, at the crossroads of Arab North Africa and black West Africa, tends to be one of too many places in the world where we Americans remain blissfully ignorant until a military or other emergency.
Pia Lopez: Kateri Tekakwitha was saintly long before Catholic church made it official
Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe first American Indian saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, was formally declared by Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 21.
Pia Lopez: Taylor built up Capital District parks; who will replace her?
Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe state parks in the Capital District don't have beaches or redwood groves. But they are unique in California.
