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Despite being an accomplished mountaineer--summiting Denali, Kilimanjaro in Africa and Aconcagua in Argentina, among other peaks, and, in the words of his friends, "running up 14ers" (14,000-ft. peaks)--Erik viewed Everest as insurmountable until he ran into Scaturro at a sportswear trade show in Salt Lake City, Utah. Scaturro, who had already summited Everest, had heard of the blind climber, and when they met the two struck an easy rapport. A geophysicist who often put together energy-company expeditions to remote areas in search of petroleum, Scaturro began wondering if he could put together a team that...
ARRESTED. CARLOS MENEM, 70, flamboyant reformist President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999; on charges of leading a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador while in office; in Buenos Aires. The first elected Argentine President ever arrested, Menem is too old to go to jail; under Argentine law, suspects 70 or older are kept under house arrest...
VIVA LA BOLSA A new President in Peru and a debt deal in Argentina last week helped volatile Latin American funds rise 2.4%. But the broader story is in Mexico, which with Brazil makes up 90% or so of the region's portfolio. Brazil's stock index is down 14% since January, but as an Evergreen manager says, "Mexico is on a tear." Its export gains and slower but solid growth will drive this fidgety sector through expected summer doldrums...
...whose distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven Spielberg and his film Schindler's List. "Mrs. Schindler was never paid," one character notes. "She's living in poverty in Argentina." Ah, that Godard: he is always serious, always impish. He lives up to his own maxim: "Every thought should show the debris of a smile." Elogie shows that smile as Godard's own: the rictus of the wise old ghost of modernist cinema...
...highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, the government decided to vaccinate 13 million animals. The disease appeared in cattle in Rio Grande do Sul state, near the border with Uruguay, which is vaccinating its entire herd of 10 million animals following the discovery of 190 cases. Neighboring Argentina, which has found 291 diseased animals, is also conducting a huge vaccination campaign. Beef exports are extremely important to the economy of Brazil, which numbers 160 million animals in its herd...