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Among its activities, the program will organize courses in cooperation with different departments, facilitate travel exchanges for students and faculty between Harvard and Brazil and print publications. It will also sponsor lectures, film series and conferences...
Coatsworth said he hopes the professorship will draw Brazilian scholars to Harvard and increase the number of courses on Portuguese language and literature, and on Brazil...
...what happens when they don't work? Several years ago, a company developed a soybean with some genetic threads borrowed from the Brazil nut in an attempt to boost the bean's amino-acid content. The soy began acting like the nut--so much so that it churned out not just amino acids but also chemicals that can trigger allergies in nut-sensitive consumers. The company quickly scrapped the product. Last spring a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest...
...insurance companies; by German police on a warrant charging him with U.S. federal money-laundering and wire-fraud offenses; at a hotel in Hamburg. Extradition is expected to take several months. After flying to Rome in May, Frankel vanished. At one point, a report had him in Brazil. Mona Kim, his office manager and a companion in the early part of his journey, told CNN that there was no high living: "I don't recall that I ever saw him relaxed." At his arrest, Frankel simply said...
...almost always on the cutting edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...