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...American Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for approximately 6,000 sq. mi. of dense rain forest in the country's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the area to help meet anticipated world shortages of food, lumber and wood pulp for papermaking...
...Amazon tributary that winds through the property. Possibly the largest entrepreneurial effort ever undertaken by one man, Jari had just begun to generate significant cash flows, but they were nowhere near as large as Ludwig had originally envisioned. Jari will now be sold to a consortium of Brazilian banks, insurance companies and industrial groups...
...young writer isolated here was hardly a flaming rebel. His favorite form of truancy as a boy was listening to his half-Brazilian mother play the piano and sing Brahms. Papa was a senator of the Baltic seaport town of Lübeck and a prosperous grain merchant: the perfect bourgeois figure for a young artist to revolt against...
...Some 300 protesting students pelted the lecture hall with eggs and tomatoes, and then pounded samba drums to taunt him. Hustled out by police into a paddy wagon, Kissinger took it all in stride: "I used to be a professor at Harvard, so I am used to this. But Brazilian students do have better rhythm...
JAZZ: "Tropical," Brazilian jazz; Schneider Center; Thursday...