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...Harvard Summer School and the Office of International Programs are expanding their credit-granting summer programs—traditionally offered in Germany, Italy, Greece and Peru—to Bolivia, Brazil and Portugal, as well as a second location in Peru...
...familiar with the company's operations, Parmalat started running into trouble after a big, costly international expansion into Latin America and the U.S. in the 1990s. Consumers didn't convert to long-life milk in the numbers Parmalat expected. Economic and currency crises in countries such as Argentina and Brazil added to the company's woes. Its debt has risen to some $7 billion, and more than half of it comes due this year and next...
...overall work force has more than doubled, to 18,500, thanks mainly to job expansion overseas. Jones interprets this not as a sign of weakness at home but as evidence of well-planned, well-executed growth. The U.S. steel industry was once its largest customer, but as Japan, Brazil, South Korea and eventually China became major players in steel and other heavy industries, Air Products followed those markets. Industrial gases are an intensely localized business--it is difficult and expensive to ship volatile compounds over distances--so Air Products became a local company in many countries, with international units that...
...Brazil, whose leaders have publicly protested US VISIT, has announced plans to fingerprint all U.S. citizens entering its borders in response to the new system...
Between electoral politics and civil disobedience, however, there is the vast realm of advocacy by non-governmental organizations who constitute a new and growing force in civil society. They work at the grass-roots on such causes as curbing AIDS in Africa, saving rainforests in Brazil, building literacy in Central America and tutoring American youth in high schools or juvenile halls. Harvard students have led the way towards living wage and anti-sweatshop standards. Though not political in a narrow sense, their work impacts the climate of politics and often leads to government action. It would be in the interest...