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...debt crisis again, its exports hurt by the peso's link to the strong dollar. A weak government faces real unpopularity in the streets. Mexico--a star for the past two years--is suffering because its economy is now so closely tied to that of the U.S. Brazil takes a hit whenever other Latin American economies are in the news for the wrong reasons...
...Since then the Newswatch section has mucked around in the unseemly secret history of the biz. Lately it has been essential reading to get the story behind the collapse of Stan Lee Media, the internet venture of the legendary Marvel editor. (One of the partners has since moved to Brazil while federal authorities seek to extradite him on securities fraud charges. Stan Lee has not been charged with any wrongdoing.) The "Journal"'s news section does excellent work, though it also has its weak spots. Since 1982 the company that publishes "The Comics Journal," Fantagraphics Books, has been publishing...
...that obstinate streak scare Condit, leading him to end what Levy cautiously described to close friends as a "passionate" relationship? Was she pregnant, her condition threatening Condit's political career? Did she run away to Brazil, Greece, Singapore? We may never know...
DIED. JORGE AMADO, 88, celebrated Brazilian writer whose 32 books were translated into some 50 languages; in Salvador, Brazil. His early novels, which often took swipes at Brazilian politicians, landed the author in prison and exile in the 1940s. Years later, his bawdier novels, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), were turned into movies...
...Wilson's scientific contributions began early. He was 13 when he discovered, in a vacant lot near the docks of Mobile, Ala., the first known U.S. colonies of fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, invaders from Brazil and Argentina known in the South as "the ants from hell...