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...same time the AIDS rebels hit on another front. The tac's chairman, Zackie Achmat, went to Brazil to obtain a consignment of cheap, generic antiretroviral drugs for a program of treatment of 85 HIV/AIDS victims, adults and children, in the black township of Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town. Achmat's shopping trip to Brazil was in open defiance of South Africa's patents law. "Potentially we face a civil action from the drugs companies," said Achmat last week. "We'll just have to wait and see." But public opinion is so firmly behind the activists that drugmakers in South...
According to the pamphlet and website, the Twelve Tribes span the globe from Dorchester to Australia, Brazil and Germany. Today, the group has between 1,000 and 1,500 members, with 45 in the local Boston-area chapter. They make their living picking up rice in the church where a wedding has been, as well as making candles, futons and other products “that the community itself uses.” Not surprisingly, the cult has faced opposition from community and governmental groups. Their open inclusion of minors in production has led to child labor citations...
...Maybe those gathered at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, made a better case for their movement. I?m tempted to go there next year. On second thought: no skiing in Brazil. So back to Davos it will...
Beijing wants carmakers, from Nissan to DaimlerChrysler, to help make the nation an auto-exporting powerhouse. That has not happened yet, because total costs in China aren't competitive with those in other emerging economies such as Brazil, where energy and--believe it or not--land are cheaper. Lower tariffs will help lure foreigners but will be disastrous for China's 120-plus state-subsidized automakers...
...exporter of world-class talent, France now outshines Brazil and Argentina, which have traditionally dominated the trade. Football's French Foreign Legion has more than 100 professional players, over 40 of them in the English Premier League alone. And lest you think the high volume is a result of low value, consider this: 11 of the 50 candidates shortlisted for last year's European Player of the Year honors were French, as were five of the 11 footballers on uefa's 2001 European all-star team. Once the perennial underachiever of world football, France has capitalized on the bountiful flowering...