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President George W. Bush shouldn't have been too surprised by the angry-and ultimately violent-welcome he received Friday at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. After pledging during his 2000 election campaign to correct Washington's indifference to Latin America, the President is viewed as having all but turned his back on the region after most Latin American capitals declined to back his invasion of Iraq. But Bush's hemispheric cold shoulder has backfired: It created a political vacuum that has been largely filled by neo-leftists like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
...Next, Bush will try to address growing worry over bird flu reaching the U.S, by announcing on Tuesday his strategy to combat a possible pandemic. And on Thursday, he will depart for a five-day trip to South America, where he will visit Argentina, Brazil and Panama...
...Dupont was invented in the U.S. But she is believed to be the first to apply it to sunflower oil. U.S. producers, who have 1.8 million acres under till and produce about 280,000 metric tons of cooking oil annually, are interested. So are producers in places like Argentina and Russia, which grow even more acres. For now, Dupont's prototype must be refined, and the cost of the process remains too high to be widely practical. But time and a few more years of rising oil prices could make sunflower power a reality...
...squeezed a total of 88 tables under the Science Center tent yesterday. One front table featured the new Funding Sources Database for International Experience, a website that lists all Harvard funding sources for international experience. Another provided information about the new Harvard study abroad program in Argentina, scheduled to begin in the 2006 fall semester...
...Dunster House Masters Roger B. Porter and Anne R. Porter—spent the past two years scattered across the globe, working to bring the uninitiated into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They worked in Chile, Switzerland, Russia, the United States, Argentina, and South Korea, but all of their missions shared one common rule: limited contact with the rest of the world...