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...getting hot in club Asylum, but the dancers just keep on going. Outside, the cops are putting up barricades for tomorrow's celebrations. Inside, the party has already begun. At this club and ones like it around the world--in Sao Paulo, in Dakar, in Havana, in New York City--Independence Day is every night...
...Janeiro is the city in Brazil that people all over the world know. They know the cathedrals and the samba clubs, the curved white strip of Copacabana beach, the spread-armed statue of Cristo Redentor on the peak of Corcovado mountain. Sao Paulo, on the other hand, is the city that foreigners don't know. They don't know that it is in many ways Brazil's musical center, accounting for 57% of record sales in the country, vs. 13% for Rio. They don't know that, with a population of 17 million, it is not only far larger than...
...most outsiders are almost certainly unaware that Sao Paulo is home to Max de Castro, 28, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who just might be the most original musical talent to have come out of Brazil in three decades. That's no small statement. Music in Brazil is like sunlight: it's natural, it's elemental, it illuminates every building, every river bend, every aspect of life. "Dancing and music are in our blood," says William Nadir, 23, a Sao Paulo motorcycle deliveryman. "You can spot strangers by the stiff way they move their hips...
Forgach did the Muana deal for Sao Paulo's Banco Axial as part of an assignment to find undervalued companies that were helping preserve the environment. In June 2000 he bought out the bank's "green" investment division and partnered with a Boston-based investment firm, GMO Renewable Resources, whose capital comes mainly from private institutions. Together, they launched A2R and continued to work on both the business health of Muana and the well-being of its workers. "If you want to help the environment and reduce the risk for investors," says Forgach, "you must alleviate poverty in the region...
...Paulo, Brazil, a survey found, nearly a quarter of city residents routinely change their driving routes to avoid robberies in which thugs stop a car at a light and demand money at gunpoint or force occupants to an ATM. The crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew...