Peru adopts "punctuality" drive
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Guidebooks warn tourists of Peruvian time -- be fashionably late for parties and dinner or risk a faux pas.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of an armed group which  took over a police station in a southern Peruvian town three  days ago and demanded the president's resignation made a fresh  promise on Monday to surrender.
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IQUITOS, Peru -- A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.
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The ruling on Peruâs former president, Alberto Fujimori, may have broader influence, experts said.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that took over apolice station in southern Peru on New Year's Day and killedfour officers will not surrender at midday as planned, itsleader Antauro Humala told Reuters Monday.
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LIMA, Peru  - Accountant Lucia Puelles, lies in  agony in a hospital bed, her legs destroyed by a bus crash that  should have been a straightforward journey to take her on  vacation to Peru's southern Andes.
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On midnight Wednesday, the country, which uses a modified Julian calendar, will kick off festivities.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledosaid on Thursday he would cooperate with a probe intoallegations he helped forge signatures to register his partyfor the 2000 election, but warned of a "conspiracy againstdemocracy" trying to bring down his government.
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The findings about Peru are evidence that some farming developed in parts of the Americas nearly as early as in the Middle East, considered the birthplace of agriculture.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - When 30-year-old Jose Bermudez  abandoned Lima for the promise of a job in Chile, he was among  the last in his family to leave Peru.
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The US is switching to daylight saving time three weeks earlier than usual to try to cut fuel consumption.
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As eco-lodges sprout under the forest canopy and guidebooks roll off the presses, Peru stands ready to showcase itself as a bird-watcher's paradise.
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Christopher Columbusâs settlement, contraband ivory and recycling made easier.
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La droga era in un container proveniente dal Peru'
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By Phillip Ramati, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Mar. 9--The annual spring-forward ritual is coming a little earlier this year.   Traditionally, most people set their clocks ahead one hour near the end of March.
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PISCO, Peru -- Carmen Angulo tells visitors to step carefully when entering her home. Pots and pans lie to the right, clothes to the left, and her three children, her parents and a few nieces and nephews nap on mattresses tossed on the floor.
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By Tania Mellado LIMA, Peru  - Peru will launch on Nov. 5 acivilian retrial of Abimael Guzman, head of the Maoist-inspiredShining Path rebel group that waged a brutal insurgency in the1980s and 1990s, officials said on Monday.