Word: sao
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...report on Bono's crusade for African debt relief and the continent's recovery [March 4]. Bono may not save the world, but his efforts are worthwhile. While we spend billions on warfare, people are dying of famine. It is time to value life. LUIZ VALERIO DE PAULA TRINDADE Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...prized for uniting the aesthetics of south and east. The synthesis comes naturally for him. The grandson of Japanese immigrants, part of a wave of 190,000 people who moved to Brazil during the first four decades of the 20th century, Fukuda, 58, was born in coffee country in Sao Paulo State, where his father had a factory that made fans. Fukuda, who has no formal art training, began his apprenticeship by painting Japanese landscapes on the fans after he came home from school...
...must be harmony." In a painting he completed this year, Composition on a Red Background, he contrasts his reds with calmer gray and brown tones. Meanwhile, his bronze sculptures are marked by empty spots that, Fukuda explains, are meant to convey airiness. For well-known critic Alberto Beutenmuller of Sao Paulo, the traditional Asian side of Fukuda's work reflects a spirit of "not wanting to lose roots or customs...
After his rural childhood, Fukuda spent some 20 years in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial center. He again adapted his surroundings into his work, using automobile paint to accentuate his sculptures. In 1980 he fled to the peace and quiet of Curitiba, a smaller city in the interior of the country. There he continues to pursue his lifelong quest to merge his birth culture with his ancestral one. "I transmit the calmness and order of my Asian upbringing," he says. But he also keeps faith with his South American side: "Art must transmit joy and energy...
...based telecom giant BellSouth this summer spent $25 million for an 11% stake in StarMedia. It hopes to use the ailing multilingual Latin American Web portal as a launching pad for services like e-mail on mobile Internet--"for those epic traffic jams we all know so well in Sao Paulo," says BellSouth's Latin American director, Roberto Peon...