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...other nonhuman primates are typical working moms. They struggle with the same challenges that human mothers face and work out surprisingly similar solutions. Tamarin mothers in the Amazon Basin rely on aunts and grandmothers to tend the young while the mothers forage for food. Moms and dads among Brazil's titi monkeys take turns minding the kids and bringing home the bacon, just as in any well-adjusted two-income human family...
...company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner to the U.S. A region-wide $1.5 billion Telefonica system will be operational...
...couple of important ways, Mamani is unusual. As a Peruvian, he is outside the main markets of Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, which together account for more than 75% of Latin American Web users (Brazil alone has 55% of them). And while the money he makes is enough to support his wife and three children, it does not place him anywhere near what Latin American marketers call "Class A or Class B"--the wealthy or at least upper middle class that makes up the bulk of online traffic...
...include the middle class and some of those below, whether governments help or not. "The poor will have access," says Roberto Wilson, partner at the Rio-based private-equity firm CVC/Opportunity Equity Partners, because "the working poor consume." Many entrepreneurs and analysts point to the example of television in Brazil, where, despite extreme poverty, more than 80% of households own a set. "This is not a rich country, but things really penetrate," says Alvaro de Castro, director of business development at Web incubator Visualcom and author of two books on e-commerce in Brazil. "In every favela there are satellite...
...children, from countries as diverse as Brazil, the United States and Colombia, said that dance is a significant part of their lives...