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...only a small band of renegade archaeologists, has become too compelling to ignore. Its thesis is that the first migration took place not 11,500 years ago but 20,000 or 30,000 or even 50,000 years ago. Although the evidence is still sketchy, archaeological digs in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada have yielded tantalizing clues that this radical notion might be correct. "This is a hot area of research," says Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. "Man's origin in the New World is one of the major unanswered questions of archaeology...
Hovering over their quarrels about the outer world is domestic grief: the death of their 16-year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits...
...assembly plant, the company is placing a huge vote of confidence in American manufacturing. It is also putting its fine-tuned reputation for quality engineering on the line. The factory will produce a new four-wheel-drive family car. Mercedes, which makes cars and trucks in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico, follows rival BMW, which is building a plant in South Carolina...
...Pakistan as many as 20 million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India, Thailand, Peru, Brazil and the Dominican Republic...
...first press conference the new Minister, not an economist but an engineer, said that what Brazil needed was some "genetic engineering of the numbers." To nervous businessmen that sounded ominously like a another price freeze. Resende firmly denied that he has any miracle cures in mind. But if he hopes to keep his job for very long, Resende will have to move fast to placate his impatient boss and rescue his inflation-weary countrymen. For the record: over the past 25 years prices have risen...