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...Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family, presumed dead - lives on for years in the impenetrable Brazilian forest, held prisoner so that he might read Dickens aloud every afternoon to the brute with a taste for literature...
Schools modeled on EDISCA are now open in five other Brazilian cities. Andrade's students sell out the local theater and put on shows as far away as Italy. They attract funding sources like the Washington-based Ashoka organization, a nonprofit group that identifies and supports 1,100 "social entrepreneurs" in 41 countries. Last year a $550,000 loan from the Brazilian government let EDISCA move into a new building...
...attack in virtual territory beyond state control and reach wide audiences without trusting their message to the filter of the media. Thirteen of the 29 groups listed as "terrorists" by the U.S. State Department maintain websites. "Hactivist" groups are pushing causes from Kashmiri separatism to Palestinian nationhood to Brazilian anticorporatism. Though it's difficult to differentiate political campaigns from out-and-out vandalism, attrition.org, a security site, counted 1,546 hacked sites around the world in April, up from just 356 a year earlier. Says Damon Bristow, head of the Asia program at London's Royal United Services Institute...
...each. Among the highlights of the 2001 season: In Praise of the Human Spirit, a work of movement, song and stories by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; and Herbin (Tamango) Van Cayseele and his Urban Tap in Caravane, which fuses tap, jazz, funk, hip-hop, DJ, Brazilian capoeira and African stilt dancing...
After renault took a controlling stake in nissan in 1999, the French carmaker sent in Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born, 47-year-old turnaround expert, to lead the overhaul. TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer recently spoke with Ghosn about the most dramatic makeover to date of a Japanese company...