Word: brazile
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Turkey this week looks a lot like Russia, Brazil or Thailand during the Asian currency crisis of 1997 - financial panic, a crashing currency and interest rates that reached 17 percent a day before the central bank had to let the currency slip into free fall...
...American raised in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador (her father was in the foreign service), educated at Oxford, currently camped out in Baltimore but dreaming of Paris, DeWitt may also be the perfect author for our age of distraction. She appears to have a magpie's fascination with pretty much everything. The other media clamoring for our attention, from the movies to the Internet, are gifts she is delighted to play with. "This is a very exciting time to be writing fiction," she says. "It's so virtuous, completely eschewing all these things that could be explored. We're surrounded...
...goes to Seattle. And Brazil...
...anti-globalization movement. And he didn't do it by staying on his sheep farm. Bove put in a star appearance at the trashing of the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle late in 1999, and last month helped a group of peasants wreck a Monsanto research farm in Brazil, to protest that company's promotion of genetically modified crops. Bove has mounted similar actions against genetically modified products in France...
During the tug of war so far, the pharmaceuticals and Western governments have prevailed. But increasingly, poor countries and AIDS advocates are finding ways to shift the balance. India and Brazil have vigorously exploited a time lag until international patent rules apply to them, manufacturing copies of AIDS drugs and selling them at deeply discounted prices. The practice opens the door for other countries to follow suit by taking advantage of a legal loophole in global-trade rules called compulsory licensing. In effect, it lets countries breach patents during national emergencies to manufacture generic versions of AIDS drugs...