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...matter how they spend the rest of the day, millions of people around the world start it off with a cup of coffee. Almost one-third of that coffee is grown in Brazil, where the worst drought of the century has recently devastated much of the crop. As a result, caffeine lovers will probably soon be forced to pay more for their morning jolt...
...more number crunching ahead of him. As the unlikely new executive of an institution focused on improving living standards in the developing world, he is racing to get up to speed on everything from the price of coffee beans in Rwanda to the salaries of schoolteachers in Brazil. Having served four years as Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish deputy at the Pentagon, Wolfowitz suddenly finds himself on the front line of another war: the global battle against poverty, a cause that has lately attracted Hollywood's interest but whose details are anything but glamorous. And so it wasn't entirely surprising...
...giant's appetite for disposable chopsticks and plywood furniture has hardly abated. Log imports--second only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle of next year, Brazil and Peru hope to have built a transcontinental highway that cuts straight through virgin rain forest. Why? In part, to export to China soybeans grown on recently cleared jungle land. China's dirty secret is out, and the rest of the world has little choice but to share...
Matory began to cultivate his anthropological views early on at Harvard, when he studied social anthropology as an undergraduate, writing a thesis comparing the social structure of certain Yoruba worshippers in Nigeria and Brazil...
...slapped a check on the table and said, "I won $4,000 playing a video game!" Since then, Wendel has been world champion of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)--the gamer's equivalent of the NBA--three times. Over the next three months, he'll play in tournaments in Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Germany, France and Finland, and all over the U.S. and Asia. Outfits like the CPL are bent on becoming big-time spectator-sports leagues like the NFL or the NBA. After all, Wendel says, football and basketball "used to be just games too. But now they...