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...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 Rio but also larger than Washington and New York City combined...
Students enrolled in small freshman seminars and learning communities return to Appalachian for their sophomore year at a higher rate than do their peers who don't partake in the program (90% vs. 84% for 1999's freshmen). So the school is expanding the program, which is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. More than 50% of the incoming class will take part in freshman seminars this year, up from about 40% last year. And students in each freshman seminar are enrolled together in at least one other course to form a learning community...
STEPHEN KING Injured author settles his suit vs. insurance co. over unpaid bills: firm must donate $ to hospital...
Mexico's northern-border commissioner, Ernesto Ruffo, argues that the time has come to end the "us-vs.-them" talk. Says he: "If we'd quit speaking in Spanish and in English and speak the language of economics, we'd end up understanding each other much better." Fox speaks that language (plus English) well. Only three months away from marking his first year in office, he is trying to cool expectations at home. "The country's fate doesn't rest on a President," he said last week as he urged Mexicans to go beyond their traditional fixation on the leader...
...mortgage will tell you, that hasn't happened. We're talking about two rates here. The first is the Treasury's 10-year bond, which is the instrument that dictates mortgage rates. Even after a tumble last week, the yield on the T bond was at 4.99%, vs. 4.91% at the start of the year; 30-year fixed-rate mortgages average 7.16%, higher than in March and down just a bit from 7.3% in January, rate-tracker HSH reports. Is this any way to revive an economy...