Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui, nuestro columnista, ha sido entrevistado por el The New York Times, periódico considerado como el mejor del mundo. Es una satisfacción que nuestro coterráneo sea reconocido a nivel mundial por su labor cusqueñista.
“SOMEWHERE in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago.”
Simple enough, right? But not for Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui.
Instead, he regales visitors to his home here in this gritty port city on Lima’s edge with his Quechua version of the opening words of “Don Quixote”: “Huh k’iti, la Mancha llahta suyupin, mana yuyarina markapin, yaqa kay watakuna kama, huh axllasqa wiraqucha.”
Mr. Túpac Yupanqui, theologian, professor, adviser to presidents and, now, at the sunset of his long life, a groundbreaking translator of Cervantes, greets the perplexed reactions to these words with a wide smile.
By rhiannon edward
A GROUP of British holidaymakers are to be interviewed over the death of a former City auditor who went missing on a trip to the Andes.
Colin Murphy, 44, was last seen at New Year in the area of the former Inca capital Cusco in Peru, not far from the ancient site of Machu Pichu.
The former HSBC auditor's body was eventually recovered two months later from the Urubamba River in Peru.
(LIP-ir) -- The three Peruvian teams that qualified for Copa Libertadores, the annual Football cup competition played by South America's top clubs, continue to fight for their place in the championship with the hopes of making it past the first round.
With two wins, one loss and a total of six points in Group 4, Cusco's Cienciano is doing the best of the three teams.
Also in group four is Tacna's Coronel Bolognesi, which is at the bottom of the group with one point. Lima's Universidad San Martin is in third place in Group 5.
The three teams are getting ready to play their fourth match in a six game series in the first round of Copa Libertadores.
I've never been so apprehensive about getting off a plane. After spending most of the flight from Lima to Cusco reading about symptoms of altitude sickness, I am convinced I'm going to faint the second the door is opened.
I venture nervously out and take my first breath of oxygen-starved Cusco air. Then a second. And a third. The relief is palpable. I'm going to survive.
Even if you don't share my morbid addiction to the Lonely Planet's environmental hazards section, the spectacular descent through cloud-shrouded mountains into Cusco will leave you in little doubt that you're now at a serious altitude - 3326m above sea level.
More than 90 of the world’s leading authorities on the potato met in Cusco this week to discuss sustainable potato-based systems, in a four-day conference sponsored by the International Potato Center, CIP, and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.
One of the expected outputs of the conference has been dubbed the “Cusco Challenge,” a year-long dialogue within the global potato science community that will address issues and opportunities in the future development of the crop.
With cereal prices soaring worldwide, the conference has aimed to tap the future food potential of the potato, which already produces more food on less land than maize, wheat or rice and, according to FAO, is considered by some scientists to be the “food of the future.”
Microsoft has launched three new models of its Zune digital media player in an effort to compete with Apple's iPod
Sources:news.bbc.co.uk
The players - which come in 4GB, 8GB and 80GB models - have wi-fi so users can automatically download music, photos, and video from their computer.
Microsoft is also launching a social networking site dubbed Zune Social to allow users to display and share music.
Last year Microsoft sold 1.2 million Zunes compared to 100 million iPods shifted since its launch in 2001.
The new players go on sale in the US in mid-November. There are no details yet as to when they will be released in Europe.
They will be priced at $149 (£73), for the 4GB player, $199 (£97) for the 8GB player and $249 (£122) for the 80GB player.
It comes with a familiar circular touch-sensitive navigation button.
Dangerous changes in cancer cells which allow them to spread around the body could be triggered by the body's own stem cells, say US scientists
source:news.bbc.co.uk
A Whitehead Institute team found human breast cancers in mice are more likely to spread if mixed with stem cells from the bone marrow.
They believe these changes could be blocked or reversed - making the cancer less deadly.
UK experts said the Nature study could point to future treatments.
When an original cancer spreads to form new tumours in other parts of the body such as the lung or liver, this is called metastasis, and often means that the patient is far less likely to be cured of the disease.
Source:cnn.com
Berlin's Mayor Klaus Wowereit once famously described his eternally broke city as "poor, but sexy." A new crop of sleek budget hotels are betting that economy minded tourists and business travelers like it that way.
On a cloudy autumn morning, the breakfast buffet is buzzing at Motel One, which has been booked solid since it opened near the city's tourist hub Alexanderplatz in June -- the newest addition to a growing number of design-oriented budget hotels.
The breakfast of German bread, cold cuts and cheese before Marilyn Stotts seems rustic in contrast to the hotel's minimalist gray interior accented by flashes of color in the turquoise seating and silver globe light fixtures.
Source:thenews.com
A confrontation between Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) and its Operation and Management (O and M) contractor, Siemens, can exacerbate the financial haemorrhage of the utility, The News learnt on Thursday.
Siemens has threatened to stop sharing its technical expertise if its dues are not paid within 44 days, meaning the utility might again have to rely on its own human resource to fix the rickety transmission and distribution system.
According to Syed Muhammad Amjad Chief Executive Officer of KESC Siemens will continue to be the operational and management contractor of the utility. The disagreement was related to control over a SAP software programme, which has nothing to do with the operational and managerial side, he said but did not divulge on the ‘breaches’ by the German multinational, which resulted in substantial losses to the KESC. “I would have to give a lecture to explain all that,” he said in brief remarks here at his office.
Source:cnn.com
We floated over the Rio Grande and skirted the tops of green cottonwood trees with the Sandia Mountains in the distance while school kids pointed and waved at us. We waved back.
It's never easy to get teens or college students up early, especially on vacation, but here they were all smiles before 7 a.m. -- before anyone had had breakfast or even a cup of coffee.
And I wasn't dreaming. We were floating high above Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a giant, rainbow-colored hot air balloon. We gave each other one of those I-can't-believe-we're-here grins that made every argument we'd had on our Southwest road trip fade away. Every vacation should have at least one standout moment like this.