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I was downstairs, picking up a box of tissues and a quart of milk. While I waited at the counter, a headline caught my eye. I looked at the front page, and added the paper to my purchases.

When he got to adding them up, the cashier asked me if I was Spanish. I explained that I read it a bit, and that I wasn't going to find that story in the English papers. And that it's useful language practice. I'm not sure how much of that he understood--his English is fine for selling sandwiches, but may not go much beyond that.

On the way upstairs, I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I'd bought a newspaper because of a headline. Mostly, I buy a paper every day, usually the same paper, depending on location--here I read Newsday, in the UK I read the Guardian (and have trouble folding it on the train), in Paris I read the hotel's copy of the International Herald Tribune over breakfast.

The headline, by the way, was "Camino a la paz," on a story about a march by Subcomandante Marcos to Mexico City, to promote a law that would protect the rights of indigenous people in Mexico. On El Diario/La Prensa, that's today's front page headline.

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I was downstairs, picking up a box of tissues and a quart of milk. While I waited at the counter, a headline caught my eye. I looked at the front page, and added the paper to my purchases.

When he got to adding them up, the cashier asked me if I was Spanish. I explained that I read it a bit, and that I wasn't going to find that story in the English papers. And that it's useful language practice. I'm not sure how much of that he understood--his English is fine for selling sandwiches, but may not go much beyond that.

On the way upstairs, I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I'd bought a newspaper because of a headline. Mostly, I buy a paper every day, usually the same paper, depending on location--here I read Newsday, in the UK I read the Guardian (and have trouble folding it on the train), in Paris I read the hotel's copy of the International Herald Tribune over breakfast.

The headline, by the way, was "Camino a la paz," on a story about a march by Subcomandante Marcos to Mexico City, to promote a law that would protect the rights of indigenous people in Mexico. On El Diario/La Prensa, that's today's front page headline.