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...first time in a decade, there are economies in Latin America that are doing better than in rich countries.' AUGUSTO DE LA TORRE, chief economist at the World Bank, on why fewer Latin Americans are immigrating...
...such as Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, he lost working-class whites. And one reason is that globalization anxiety is not merely economic; it is cultural. In recent decades, the face of America has changed. At one end of the class ladder, low-wage workers have streamed in from Latin America, transforming parts of the country that hadn't seen significant immigration in a century. At the other, America's economic lite has become far more multicultural, as Indians, Koreans and Russians flood state universities and private colleges, hedge funds and Internet start-ups. Partly as a result, interracial...
...dance classes the team offers (along with Salsa, Waltz/Tango, Lindy/Blues, Latin Medley, and Ballroom Intro), the group is on their third session and a few dedicated regulars are already reviewing the basic steps in the cramped stairway. When the time comes (inadvertently, it seems, at seven minutes past the hour), we all file in and everyone removes their shoes to don dance-floor appropriate socks...
...human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete in the mind.” By its end, the same can be said...
...helping the world's poorest. With Congress locked in talks over a mammoth bailout package, Bill Gates and Howard Buffett (Warren's oldest son) announced at the United Nations on Wednesday that their private foundations will plow more than $75 million into helping small farmers in Africa and Latin America to sell their crops as food aid - a move which could potentially overhaul the decades-old - and often criticized - global food aid system...