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...size of a man's toys equal the size of his wallet, then Andres Ergas' newest plaything is a good fit. Until 2000, his family owned the Banco de Chile, the country's No. 2 bank. And after 15 years in the family business, Ergas, 40, has lost interest. "There is nothing true about banking," he says. "Money, it's just a commodity." It is, however, useful nonetheless to breach the old adage and mix business with pleasure...
...grooves trickling through iTunes. The staff of 33 read like a Who's Who of Chilean military and academia: the captain once commanded the Chilean Navy SEALs, the expedition leader was in command of Augusto Pinochet's bodyguards, and Gian Paolo Sanino, the scientist who leads the ecotours, wrote Chile's new law on whale and dolphin watching. His payoff? He gets to conduct baseline research in an area where very little cetacean research has been done. "We always complain the private sector doesn't sponsor science," says Sanino. "Now they...
...owns 442,000 acres of it so far. Together, directly or through foundations they control, Tompkins and his wife have acquired properties encompassing Pacific coastal fjords, Patagonian virgin forest and tropical wetlands, a total area of some 3,437 square miles (2.1 million acres) in both Argentina and neighboring Chile. That is the approximate area of Cyprus. He is not trying to create his own country, however. He is trying to save the planet...
...SHUs New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute last week certified the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," from India as the hottest ever tested. By comparison, most pepper sprays come in at 2 to 5 million SHUs...
...travesty that no students will be experiencing Chile this spring, but this disappointing truth should in no way discourage my peers from traveling to Chile this summer and next year. I will be more than happy to meet and discuss my fabulous time in Chile with anyone interested...