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...Around the world: Israeli security agents are testing a substance found on a cargo plane; Brazil's defense minister grounded a Lufthansa plane after officials found a suspicious powder on board; the US consul in Sydney, Australia was evacuated after a staff member found a letter with a "chemical residue." In Kenya, two suspicious letters mailed from the U.S. have tested negative for anthrax...
...contemporary art world that celebrates expressions of multiculturalism, Fukuda's paintings and sculptures, all abstract, are prized for uniting the aesthetics of south and east. The synthesis comes naturally for him. The grandson of Japanese immigrants, part of a wave of 190,000 people who moved to Brazil during the first four decades of the 20th century, Fukuda, 58, was born in coffee country in Sao Paulo State, where his father had a factory that made fans. Fukuda, who has no formal art training, began his apprenticeship by painting Japanese landscapes on the fans after he came home from school...
After his rural childhood, Fukuda spent some 20 years in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial center. He again adapted his surroundings into his work, using automobile paint to accentuate his sculptures. In 1980 he fled to the peace and quiet of Curitiba, a smaller city in the interior of the country. There he continues to pursue his lifelong quest to merge his birth culture with his ancestral one. "I transmit the calmness and order of my Asian upbringing," he says. But he also keeps faith with his South American side: "Art must transmit joy and energy...
Another thing I learned is to invest in real estate. Around the time I went to the U.S., I had invested in cattle in Brazil. The cattle died. With land, apartments, houses, no one can take it away. So today, my investment base is real estate...
...there have been offers to coach the Brazilian national team, but there's no way I can stand on the side of the field. One of the biggest disappointments I ever had in sport was when I was a commentator for TV Globo during the 1998 World Cup, and Brazil lost. I had to be honest: Brazil was not playing well...