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...Called, oddly enough, Crystal Caves, it holds some 600 crystals and fossils, many of which the Dutch-born 69-year-old gathered on expeditions to Mexico and Brazil. His obsession has brought its share of trouble. He's had life-threatening encounters with con men in silver mines-one tried to throw him down a shaft, he says. And not long ago, he was robbed. It's little consolation to Boissevain that the burglars evidently mistook his fake diamonds for the real thing. "They mustn't be very smart," he says mournfully...
...post-Saddam freedom Iraqis can unreservedly enjoy is access to satellite television--Lebanese music videos, Egyptian soaps, the Oprah Winfrey Show (with Arabic subtitles), sports. The soccer World Cup was a welcome distraction. Since Iraq didn't qualify, people invested their emotions in foreign teams, like Brazil and Italy. When the Italians won the tournament, it was our driver Wisam--not our Milanese photographer, Franco Pagetti--who had to be restrained from shooting an AK-47 into the air, the traditional Arab celebration. But even the enjoyment of a faraway sporting event can be poisoned by sectarian suspicions: a Sunni...
...backpack. Over the weekend, I was at a music festival with 36,000 people when we walked right past each other. We didn’t exchange a word, but a creepy sense of recognition was definitely there.But besides reading time and a freakish connection with Mystery Man From Brazil, three hours a day of transit have given me valuable perspective. Working at a nonprofit social services agency designing a pre-employment program for low-income youth living in public housing (and getting to and from it), I have come to realize my situation is, well, quite ideal...
Hamilton's love, though, remains surfing. She spends three weeks in a typical month traveling to competitions and has surfed off Brazil, Indonesia and Australia. But there are no waves like home. "Hawaii," she says, "will always be my favorite...
Financial markets have had the wind at their backs for the last few years. Historically low interest rates, the economic rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil, and consistently strong corporate earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that just about any bet - even the risky ones such as sugar futures and Indian pharmaceutical companies - was bound to pay off handsomely. Since May, that optimism has been challenged. Today asset prices are being weighed down by two powerful forces: monetary policy and geopolitical angst. This [an error occurred while...