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...Mexico's Center of Research and Development. Today, he said, "that first era of reform is over. I don't see a single important reformer in Latin America." Not unlike the situation in India, the public sees few benefits from the impressive modernization in key countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, as unemployment remains stubbornly high and real wages fall. Warned Rubio: "It's a pocketbook issue, and the pocketbook is getting emptier by the day." With the spirit of deregulation on the wane, the region is vulnerable to a renewed outbreak of what Rubio called "the Latin American disease...
...Mexico, "the political situation is very delicate and the whole edifice is fragile," said Rubio, while Brazil's fortunes hinge on a proposed constitutional amendment to allow President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to run for a second consecutive term. Argentina faces a different kind of structural problem, Garten said: "They have a high-wage economy and 18% unemployment. The country is importing massive amounts of equipment to substitute for labor, but there's no scenario to retrain the workers. That's going to create real political tensions...
Elsewhere he compares different styles of racism. The U.S., with its predominantly Northern European traditions, erects distinct color barriers even though its population has been paddling in a richly mixed gene pool for more than three centuries. By contrast, Brazil is what Cose calls a "pigmentocracy," where the national myth of racial harmony masks a system in which lighter skins enjoy higher status and rewards...
They were kindred minds as well as spirits. On a vacation to Brazil, he took James Watson's 1,100-page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution...
URUGUAY 95% BENIN 88 ICELAND 87 SLOVENIA 85 CHILE 79 COSTA RICA 79 ARGENTINA 79 BRAZIL 78 PORTUGAL 77 ISRAEL 76 UNITED STATES...