Word: america
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...LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN...
...Those are fighting words to John Derbyshire, a proud pessimist crusading against America's penchant for smiley-faced self-deception. The National Review writer and self-described "conservative gloominary" leads readers on a bleak tour of modern life, bemoaning the state of our society and culture (the '00s are the first decade without a living novelist featured on TIME's cover, he laments). Derbyshire's no fan of liberalism, but his main targets are the utopian fantasies of both parties and the notion that humanity can patch the flaws that led us to this woeful state to begin with. Embracing...
...Christopher Kimball, who searches for perfect recipes for a living as the editor of Cook's Illustrated and host of PBS's America's Test Kitchen, says letting random people tweak recipes will lead to tears on the stove top. "Variables affect other variables," he says, and without one person testing each and every change, "there's no continuity of experience. So how do you get the answer...
Although the Rodriguez-Pastor family controls 70% of the shares--the rest are publicly traded--it differs from many family-controlled firms in South America in one way: "You don't have to be a family member to make it," he says. The family name isn't part of the company name for that reason...
Rodriguez-Pastor initially followed the path of South America's educated élite and worked in New York City, at Citibank and on Wall Street. After his father died in 1995, he went home to Interbank...