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...farmer's dislike of being cooped up and his salesman's instinct for staying mobile, exercises power on the move. If it's Tuesday, this must be Santiago, Chile; or Detroit; or the state of Chiapas; or downtown Mexico City. Constantly in the public eye, the former president of Coca-Cola Mexico has made himself Mexico's motivational speaker in chief...
...Fourteen months ago, Manser returned to Batu Lawi at the end of a 12-year personal crusade to help his adopted tribe, the Penan, preserve their landscape and their way of life from the cancer of all things modern: cash, Coca-Cola, television, but above all the mowing down of their native forest. If he had reached the summit he would have been confronted with glaring evidence of his failure: the verdant forest slashed by logging roads, a net of wounds bleeding orange mud, the animals largely gone. Manser had lived with the Penan in their jungle for six years...
...appear deceptively like home to the 25,203 U.S. servicemen stationed on its 38 U.S. military facilities. Reminders of Uncle Sam abound--America Mart, America Hotel and Club America. A two-story emporium called American Depot stands in the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel emblazoned with a Coca-Cola logo. Even at traditional matsuri, or summer festivals, children wave cotton candy, shirtless skateboarders do stunts on open walkways and women in shorts and bikini tops lick jewel-colored snow cones...
...incident, a matsuri (festival) is in full swing. Children wave cotton candy and scoop at goldfish with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...
...Today it is vital as an emulsifier and suspension agent in soft drinks and candy bars and as a stabilizer in cosmetics and newspaper ink. Scientists have yet to find or invent an exact alternative to the amber-like substance, so products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Minute Maid rely on imports from Sudan, which supplies more than 80% of the world market...