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...been interested in the developing world and international economics since the beginning of his career, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on inflation and its relationship to economic development in Brazil...
...Brazil has long been called a country of the future and it seemed to me a fascinating place. I was bedeviled at the time by the interesting question of the effect inflation had on the country,” Rubin said...
...comes across most viscerally on the great Antonio Carlos Jobim song Waters of March, which she sang in her own translation from the Portuguese (one of her five or six languages). Her version, so intimate with the song's poetry that it even became a hit in Jobim's Brazil, contains at the core of its large-hearted refrain a line that reads, "It's the promise of spring, it's the end of despair, it's the joy in your heart." How I wish she had been singing it last weekend...
...BRAZIL Mass Vaccination Faced with two outbreaks of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, the government decided to vaccinate 13 million animals. The disease appeared in cattle in Rio Grande do Sul state, near the border with Uruguay, which is vaccinating its entire herd of 10 million animals following the discovery of 190 cases. Neighboring Argentina, which has found 291 diseased animals, is also conducting a huge vaccination campaign. Beef exports are extremely important to the economy of Brazil, which numbers 160 million animals in its herd...
...finally getting to the point - anyone with an ear to the radio got a world tour. Earlier decades had welcomed a few musical refugees: "Perfidia" in Glenn Miller's version, Eddy Duchin's cover of "Brazil", the Andrews Sisters' hot-Yiddish "Bei Mir Bist du Schön." But the '50s truly internationalized music on the radio; it turned AM into...