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...Malaysia and South Korea, while still far below their peaks, had bounced up 50% or more from their deflated lows of summer. The Japanese government has announced yet another economic-stimulus program, and optimists hope this one might actually be carried out. Meanwhile, a timely international rescue plan for Brazil has eased fears that Asia's ills would spread inexorably to Latin America, then to the U.S., then Europe, back to Asia and on and on in widening global circles. Accordingly, a few U.S. business people are beginning to cast lines into economies that are still largely underwater and fish...
...DANILO PEREZ Central Avenue (Impulse) Perez, a pianist, is after a kind of musical Creole, mixing straight-ahead bop with motifs from Cuba, Brazil and his native Panama--all at once! Central Avenue may not be the year's most coherent album, but it's emblematic of the new, more supple, more eclectic brand of fusion that's enriching jazz...
Cultural Survival was founded in 1972 by Professor of Anthropology David H.P. Maybury-Lewis and his wife Pia Maybury-Lewis after they traveled to Brazil to study its indigenous people to conduct research on David Maybury-Lewis's thesis...
...market these new private banks have found is huge. Some of it is the old-fashioned sort of money from Brazil or Mexico, seeking a safe haven from instability and high taxation. But most of it is "onshore": millions of newly wealthy professionals and business proprietors in Europe, Asia, Latin American, the Middle East and Africa who don't need deep secrecy and want private-banking services provided in their own countries...
...takes a moment to realize what I am seeing: a monkey in a tree. To be specific, it is a black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) swinging through the topmost branches of a ceiba tree in the rain forest in Suriname, the former Dutch Guyana, north of Brazil. Thick-furred, with a red face, the monkey moves by sprawling out and brachiating from branch to branch through the high forest canopy; its long, prehensile tail functions as an arm. It pauses and looks down with the cool expression of a teenager. A monkey in a tree...