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...companies offer a more stunning testimonial to the benefits of privatization--and fortuitous timing--than the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining firm Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. In the 55 years following its founding in 1942, Vale, as it is now known, grew into a comfortably large domestic player. Since being unshackled from Brazil's state bureaucracy in 1997, Vale has soared into the ranks of global-commodities powerhouses, with net income rising from $680爉illion in 2002 to $9.2燽illion in the first nine months of 2007, placing it as one of the top-three diversified mining...
...enfermedades mortales como la diabetes. Tambi?n son mucho m?s propensos al asma y la hipertensi?n. Y mientras los pol?ticos hablan de las injusticias y los da?os de estas disparidades, Aida Giachello, de 59 a?os, se ha subido las mangas para tomar al toro por los cuernos. Giachello fund? hace doce a?os el Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. Desde entonces, el centro se ha convertido en un ejemplo a la hora de involucrar a l?deres comunitarios (en lugar de ?expertos? profesionales) en la obtenci?n de informaci?n, evaluaci?n de las necesidades m?dicas...
...M?xico, tuvo que comenzar de cero en la industria del cine en Los ?ngeles. Despu?s que el director Robert Rodr?guez la viera en televisi?n y la seleccionara para su pel?cula Desperado, de 1995, Hayek comenz? a conseguir papeles en pel?culas como Fools Rush In y Wild Wild West. Justo doce a?os despu?s de su llegada, la actriz ha producido y protagonizado el proyecto de sus sue?os, una biograf?a de la pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo, pel?cula que en la estaban interesadas por a?os muchas mujeres m?s famosas, ricas y altas, sin contar los ejecutivos que deseaban producirla. Pero un proyecto pasional...
...first it seems rather surprising that a translator as extraordinarily gifted as Edith Grossman should have rendered the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book, Doce cuentos peregrinos, as Strange Pilgrims. The Spanish literally means something like "Twelve Peregrine Tales." Yet a Spanish/English dictionary will tell you that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...Patriotic Front now includes the leftist Pueblo Unido or United People's Movement (students, progressive professionals and trade unions), a respected group of national leaders called Los Doce ("The Twelve"), and, most importantly, the Sandinista Front (FSLN), which spearheaded the opposition movement from the beginning. The Twelve includes the famous Jesuit priest Ernesto Cardenal, and used to include the popular editor of the opposiition newspaper La Prensa, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. Chamorro was gunned down on his way to work in January 1978, and his assassination touched a spree of rioting and burning of buildings in the capital city of Managua...