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...exist. The shops had food, but few luxuries, mailboxes were little more than garbage cans, and the way forward was along unmarked roads gouged with potholes. There was jazz - the Costa do Sol, at the end of [an error occurred while processing this directive] Maputo's Sunset Boulevard, the Avenida de Marginal, was serving up sax and prawns long before an AK-47 made it onto the Mozambican flag - but to get there you had to cling to the back of a pickup truck with another 40 wide-eyed souls. Today, you can travel in style, in a chauffeur-driven...
LISBON Strollers on this city's Avenida de Roma love the durability of Persol for Max & Co. lenses...
...Spain for years. Three years ago, it began recruiting in the Philippines. Administrators in the city say only 10% of those recruits have left and 530 Filipino teachers are currently working in the city's schools. So last fall Duque took an 18-hour flight to Manila, courtesy of Avenida International Consultants (AIC), an agency that specializes in connecting U.S. schools with Filipino teachers. AIC put him up in a five-star hotel for five days and introduced him to a stream of experienced teachers eager to work...
...with most immigrant workers, the financial incentive looms large for Filipino teachers who opt for the U.S. According to Ligaya Avenida, AIC's founder, a Filipino teacher earns from $9,000 to $12,000 a year. In Baltimore the average Filipino recruit makes $45,000 a year. Many Filipino teachers seeking to practice their craft in the U.S. shell out as much as $10,000 to recruiting agencies like AIC to secure interviews with American administrators and receive help with visas and other immigration documents. With some agencies, however, the teachers don't always get what they...
...Castro was born in Rio and grew up in a luxurious apartment on Avenida Atlantica. As a teen, he listened to American soul music. "At that time Max liked to copy Prince," says Joao Marcello Boscoli, a friend of De Castro's and head of Trama, his record label. "He used to slide across the floor to open the door, playing an imaginary guitar." Soon De Castro discovered the great Brazilian music that had been playing around him all along--Powell, Ben and Moacir Santos. His embrace of the music of his homeland was only logical. His father Wilson Simonal...