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...smaller markets plus the rest of Mexico due next year. Meanwhile, large infrastructure projects are in the works that will expand the region's ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner to the U.S. A region-wide...
...office," says Marcus, who has moved nine times in three years. Resettling in the suburbs might make sense, but the troops keep voting it down, clearly dreading Seattle's horrendous traffic. Instead they huddle outside PacMed in a chilly dusk drizzle, awaiting one of the vans that crisscross the city from one Amazon outpost to another. "Imagine how much they're paying us," a shivering woman complains, "to stand here waiting for a ride...
Ramirez breaks into homes, but his intention is not to steal but to annihilate. That viciousness has cleared store shelves of guns in the small towns along the tracks that crisscross Texas. "Right now," says Cox, "Ramirez is the most wanted man in Texas. And he might be the most wanted...
...town in the world. And since the odds of a microbiologist's becoming even a little bit famous are a lot worse than 5,000 to 1, it was perhaps inevitable that this hero's achievements would immediately be disputed. In a scientific field so heavily manned, findings routinely crisscross and even minor discoveries can leave a trail of claims and counterclaims, not to mention envy and acrimony, that are truly incurable...
While GEORGE W. BUSH saunters toward a presidential candidacy--allies say he'll announce an exploratory committee within a week or two--fund raisers for rival campaigns are getting night sweats. "Waiting for his decision has been suffocating," complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas Governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker HENRY KRAVIS, oilman JOHN MORAN and fund manager LEWIS EISENBERG made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will...