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After an academic career that took him from the Himalayas to Harvard, Business School professor Ramachandran Jaikumar died last week of a heart attack while mountain climbing in Ecuador...
...widespread impression--and all those jokes about El No-Show--the El Nino of 1997-98 never really faltered. When you put it all together--forest fires in Indonesia, typhoons in Japan, torrential rains in East Africa, unusually powerful hurricanes in the Pacific, flash floods in Peru and Ecuador, freak snowstorms in Mexico--this El Nino has already unleashed more than its share of epic mayhem. But precisely because its reach is so long and its effects so broadly distributed around the globe, it has been difficult for most people to appreciate the full force of the beast that underlies...
...children of the lead-glazing village of La Victoria, Ecuador, have the highest lead concentration in their blood, putting them at an enormously high risk for brain damage...
Michael's friends mourned him as a smart, hardworking, bighearted man who, had he died a little sooner or a little later, might have been remembered as a hero. He founded a university in Angola, gave loans to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and ran a company that supplies heat to 147 homeless shelters in Boston. He spent much of his life doing generous things, but just enough doing reckless things to join the long index of scandals and self-destruction in untold Kennedy histories to come...
Shaman is beginning to prove the point, having identified more than 3,000 possible sources of new drugs while sampling about 100 plants each year. The company's first product, Provir, is an extract of plant material used to combat acute diarrhea in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Currently in Phase 2 clinical trials, it could be on the market in as little as three years. A topical ointment for herpes infection and an oral antifungal agent are also in the pipeline...