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...unpaved stretch takes six days to drive in the rainy season. It would require less than a day on an all-weather surface. The decision to pave the highway is largely the product of vigorous lobbying by giant agribusinesses, which see the route as a more profitable way to export soybeans. (After the U.S., Brazil is the world?s largest exporter of the crop.) A Brazilian-American consortium is planning to build an enormous dock-and-loading system in Santar?m, the sleepy port that lies at the junction of the Tapaj?s and Amazon rivers, 700 km from the Atlantic Ocean...
...sums up his foreign policy by saying that democracy is our nation's most important export...
...Democratic fund raiser, pleaded guilty to conspiring to break campaign-finance laws; Johnny Chung, a California businessman (also represented by Lee's lawyer Sun), pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions. Even public service was seen as dangerous territory. Clinton appointee Hoyt Zia, chief counsel for the Bureau of Export Administration, faced conservative challenges to his loyalty as an American before he left the post. Says his sister Helen Zia, author of the new book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (Farrar Straus & Giroux): "Every Asian-American in Washington became a potential suspect...
Just how sophisticated is the technology? Look at what Corporate Defense Strategies of Maywood, N.J., has on offer. Last year managers at a New York City import-export company suspected it was being robbed by two employees. CDS advised the firm to install Investigator, a software program that could furtively log every single stroke of the suspects' computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigator revealed that the two were deleting orders from the corporate books after they were processed, pocketing the revenues and building their own company from within. The program picked up on their...
Clinton is inclined to okay the export to a NATO ally. But there's a snag. Two years ago, the Administration promised that it would not approve the sale unless Turkey made "significant progress" on seven human-rights benchmarks. State Department reports reveal that Turkey still flunks them all. Administration aides are looking for ways to get out of the promise, but "we're going to hold them to it," says Amnesty International's Maureen Greenwood...