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...business trips but also as a base of operations that offers a security they can't find in their own countries. (Even Miami's violent-crime rate pales by comparison with the kidnappings, terrorism and guerrilla warfare that many Latins face in cities like Rio de Janeiro, Medellin or Lima.) "Venezuelans, Brazilians and increasing numbers of Argentines are investing in Miami, developing hotels and purchasing malls," says Suquet. "They are setting up businesses here, buying homes in Coral Gables or Cocoplum, sending their kids to Gulliver Academy or Belen Jesuit Preparatory School...
...Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Ian McCluskey...
Freedom -- of sorts. Freedom from beatings by a drunken father. Freedom from fighting with seven siblings for a crust of bread. Freedom to hope. Cristiano, now 16, fled the abuse and violence of his home at 6. Surely the streets of glamorous, wealthy Rio de Janeiro offered a better life than the wretched slum west of the city where he was born...
Doctors around the world certainly did. Thousands of physicians had convened that month at a medical congress in Rio de Janeiro, and most of them signed a petition demanding that the French government reverse Roussel's decision. Within 48 hours, Health Minister Claude Evin declared that once government approval had been granted, "RU 486 became the moral property of women," and he ordered Roussel to resume distribution. In 1989 RU 486 was made available to all licensed abortion clinics and hospitals in France. The results proved encouraging, save for a freak incident in 1991 when a woman...
...refined over two decades at international conferences. It is often paired with "sustainable development" -- the notion that economic development, if carried out in a careful manner, can proceed without exhausting the natural resources needed by future generations. As recently as last June during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, governments tried to forge an action agenda based on sustainable development...