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BRAZIL/LATAM MYSTERIOUS, DANGEROUS, MARVELOUS National Geographic in Rio de Janeiro David Alan Harvey Photographs | Harvey Book MURDER IN THE MANGROVE Students Assassinated By Drug Gang on Colombia Coast Oleada de Muerte | Regreso al Pasado? MEDICAL BIRTH Caesarean Rate Explodes: Tops 90% 'It's a class thing' Surgical birth the rage in status-conscious Brazil. Are there risks? Expert: "We don't know the consequences." UMBRAPHILIA! $20,000 Blackout: Easter Island Most Expensive Eclipse Trip Ever Slideshow | VIDEO | PDF Brazil Prez Race A Contest of Continuity SUGAR + YEAST = HYDROCARBONS Why America's hottest biotechs are heading to Brazil PDF | VIDEO: Synth Bio Meets Sugarcane Generals Oppose Truth Commission SAUDI ARABIA OF SALT Is Bolivia's lithium the future of electric vehicles? Photoessay (PDF) HIGH CRIME, HIGH TASTES Brazil's Rich Roll in Armored Splendor Bulletproof Pink Beetle VIDEO: Inside the Armoring Factory Auto Slideshow by Garapa BOLIVIA'S COCAINE BOOM ...Up by 65% Morales: Pro-Coca but Anti-Cocaine? Bolivia Reax | La Prensa PRESERVATION OR PRISON? The Great Walls Of Rio VIDEO: Inside the Model Favela Slideshow | Graphic | WNYC Interview AIR FRANCE CRASH Plane goes missing over Atlantic … Debris Found Big Dreams Vanish with Jet ASSASSINS "Keystone Cop" Mercenary Plot Mercenary misadventure in Bolivia leads to three deaths. They posed as a "movie crew", went bowling. Clues on Facebook. Rozsa Speaks from Grave! INVESTIGATION ML I-Bankers: Lost $ With Guaranteed Bonus Looking for i-bankers who lose money? In Brazil, a touted banking team raked in +$50 million in guaranteed bonuses in '08, but didn't do much business. The Hires | Reuters WAIT, IS THAT RONALDO? PACHA MAMA v. JESUS Christians Wage Media War on Morales UPDATE: Constitution Approved FRIDAY, October 22, 2008 Currency Bets Backfire Peso Problemo Latin corporates forget the meaning of "hedge," bet against dollar rise. As crisis swings currencies losses hit the billions. While CFO on vacation Comerci goes bankrupt. WNYC Interview | Latin Markets Plunge Again BIG BROTHER...BRAZIL Eavesdroppers Run Amok in Dantas Case Eike Raided | #2 Cop Arrested | DOJ Probe BRAZIL IPO EXPLOSION BIG PLANS: Bovespa IPO P1 INVESTIGATION: How I-Banks Looted NOT OVER: EIKE POCKETS $13 BILLION IN A DAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2007 Carnaval Date A Question of Commerce, Bad Taste Party Time At least it is in Rio. "A disaster" when Carnaval starts too early. Fixing celebration's date is new business idea. Traditionalists, Catholic Church aren't budging. VIDEO: Love or $$$? | Steelbands Rise Up MINING TITAN Brazil's Vale Takes on Global Giants Iron Will The world's largest iron miner has global ambitions. It's shares have been the best-performing big company stock in the world and a favorite of Soros. But Brazil's government has different ideas. Xstrata Deal | Vale Walks SUGAR RUSH Ethanol Giants Struggle To Crack Brazil Market Google Guys Cícero Junqueira Franco is one of Brazil's ethanol kings. And he will not sell his ethanol factory. "Why would I?" asks the 75-year-old, whose family owned giant swaths of sugarcane land since the 1700s. VIDEO | Wins NAAJ Award | Bankrupt! FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2005 Ukukus Wonder Why a Sacred Glacier Melts END TIMES One recent moonlit night high in the Peruvian Andes, about 200 men dressed in furry cloaks and woolen masks trekked up to a glacier whose ice is said to have magical healing properties. The bear-men say their sacred glacier is disappearing. Over a period of two decades, its edge has drawn back 600 feet along the boulder-strewn slope. Is global warming to blame?

SCIENCE DOING BIOTECH IN MY BEDROOM Meet the Do-it-Yourself Biologists BIOFUEL BUBBLE? $100 million IPO Draws Biofuel Skeptics No Revenues. No production. No chance? Run of IPOs by next-gen biofuel companies raises doubts. KiOR says it can make gasoline from wood chips but critics clamor for "accountability" from biofuel VC king Vinod Khosla. The Nicolelis profile ... in Alfa magazine STEM CELL GAMBLE Embryonic stem cell study stirs hopes of paralyzed. First volunteer signs on after thinking for 30 minutes. But what are the risks? FDA: "Probably the most complex biological therapeutic humanly imaginable." TJ's Story | Geron Cancels Trial FOWL DEED Discovery of a Lifetime Stolen Grallaria fenwickorum? In toxic taxonomy feud, pilfered species named after wealthy donor. Conservation group claims "intellectual property rights" to wild animal. PLUS, bird killer's confession: "I did it!" BRAZILIAN SCIENCE HEATS UP Brazil battles gringos for science supremacy. Tropical technocrats seek "informational hegemony" over Amazon forest, deep-water oil finds. Plus: Going to school past the drug gang. MP3 Podcast | Transcript DESPERATION PLAY Artificial Leaf Seen As Energy Savior Scientists plot planetary climate rescue with man-made "leaves". Would need to cover entire state of South Carolina. D.O.E. antes up $122 million for longshot sun-to-fuel scheme. "The prize is great enough." PDF | Scientific American Interactive Feature CASTRO FEARS NUCLEAR WINTER IN HAVANA WAVE OF DESTRUCTION Quake Rattles Chile's Science Ambitions Research set back "maybe 10 years" as magnitude 8.8 quake shakes labs, burns down research center, washes microscopes out to sea. Ecologist on remote Robinson Crusoe isle drowned by tsunami wave. Hit to science: $200 Million MEGALOMANIACS Brazil Plots Ethanol Manhattan Project The U.S. has bet billions on squeezing biofuel out of cellose. Now Brazilian scientists dream of winning the biofuel race. Success means an awesome prize for tropical eggheads. "We will be regarded like Pele." MIND BENDER How I Lobbied the President to Cut Carbon How environment minister Carlos Minc convinced Brazil's president to stop worrying and love emissions caps. Plus, the diplomatic deal: "Just don't criticize us," say allies. BUG PROBLEM World’s Largest Stem-Cell Test A Brazilian doctor with Chagas' disease -- caused by a bug bite -- helps enroll 1,200 patients in world's largest-ever test of adult stem cells. Will injections into the heart be a 'poor man's' cure? Video (Coming Soon!) | WSJ link | Study Design POOR FOLKS Anthropologists to Crack Slum Secrets Marketers spend millions figuring out why poor people buy stuff. Surveys discover "symbols" and "anti-symbols" of Latin lower class. Update | Controversy | The Next Billion GENETIC REVOLUTION Whole-Genome Association Reaches Prime Time DNA SCANNER You read it in the WSJ first. Whole-genome scans set to change medicine...unless they're useless. Eventually, genome scans will be rendered obsolete by whole-genome sequencing. There's a prize for that, but it's first available to billionaires and celebrities. "It's no big whup," says J. Craig Venter, who was first to know all his genes Women's Health Study | Exercise Guru Ill, Invests IT's THE GENES HEDGE-FUND PRO HUNTS AUTISM CAUSE Jim Simons was a mathematician before he began making billions with hedge-fund Renaissance Technologies. Now he's bankrolling a hunt for the causes of autism. Supremely logical, Mr. Simons rejects theories that vaccines are to blame. He's following up on the only clue there is -- that autism is at least partly genetic. Simons Foundation | Renaissance Tech | Simons Wiki SHOP AFTER YOU DROP Millionaires Put Cash On Ice... ...Retrieve it After Death DNA AND IQ: SAY IT AIN'T SO. The Bruce Lahn Story in WSJ Harvard Prez Hot Water | Fired: DNA Discoverer Watson CLIMATE CRACKUP Hockey Stick Leads to A Face-Off Slap Shot Global Warming graph garbage? The story of Steve McIntyre in the WSJ causes climatology hurricane. Counterpunch | Wiki | McIntyre's Blog SOMETHING IS GOING ON Billionaire Fears Sudden Climate Catastrophe Full Text | Sears Pays $1 Billion | Dies at 78 A PETUNIA BREAKS THE RULES The story of RNA Interference Floral Anomaly Before the Nobel Prizes. Before the IPOs. Before the the plagiarism. The WSJ PG one story on how RNA silencing set to revolutionize research, medicine. KITTY, KITTY First Domestic Pet Cloned in Texas Investigative Report BIOTECH TABOO The troubled hunt for the ULTIMATE cell Super Scoop! (click cover for PDF) The stem cell story that started it all. Technology Review breaks news of embryonic stem cell hunt wide open. The science, the drama, the danger. The scoops contine: human embryo cloning in Mass., chinese cloning experiments, the ballot proposition, cloning at UCSF, chinese/NYU almost cloning, Schatten's fibulous ways, Melton's big problem.

THE INTERNET Crowdsourcing MY BOSS IS AN ALGORITHM They call it "human computation." Now meet the menial-wage foreign laborers inside the Web's crowdsourcing machine. Ironic assignment for struggling 3rd worlders: impersonate rich-country people on Twitter, social net. When Machines Do Your Job Internet of Things RAGE AGAINST THE SMART METER Ed Friedman doesn't mind the tinfoil-hat jokes. But can anyone tell him why the government is making him pay to stay away from WiFi signals? "My home is my castle. And they want to receive and transmit from it." So, Who Invented "Cloud Computing" Anyway? Brand Jackers VIRAL VIDEO BLACKMAIL Kamikaze YouTube producers seek cash from brands....pay me or else! Are ad spoofs the new anti-marketing business model? Motive revealed: "I want to be famous." Climate Hack TRASH THE EMAILS! What to do with a pesky FOI request for your global warming e-mails? Researchers at the Climatic Research Unit had an idea. Delete them. That's illegal under U.K. law. Denial | FOI Rules Web 2.0 Sell Out CELEBRITY PAY-PER-TWEET Marcelo Tas is Brazil's #1 Ranked Tweeter, a "tropical" Jon Stewart. WSJ scoop on his pay-per-tweet deal with Telefonica stirs outrage in Twittosphere. Gawker...paid to b.s. | TAS RESPONDS! Child Porn Crusader TAKES ON GOOGLE SOCIAL NETWORK In Brazil, Orkut got very big, very fast. With Brazil's economy heating up, Google began selling ads here. But Brazilian crime-fighters had their own ideas. WSJ Scoop: The Ads Come Down | Google Cuts Deal Brazilian Internauts Behind Fotolog's Surge Al Gore's Penguin Army LOBBY GROUP IN LOW-DOWN YOUTUBE HIT IP Address Revealed! Don't use fake Yahoo accounts to answer reporters' questions. DCI Group did, outing themesles as the makers of Al Gore's Penguin Army. Techno Scoop! Wiki Entry! | DCI Group | Featured on GMA Eye Of Storm VIDEO BLOGS BREAK OUT WITH TSUNAMI SCENES Citizen Witness Video Blogging was super new. The Christmas Tsunami's powerful videos put the Internet's distribution channels to work. Phuket Video| Golson Graduates to Valleywag Computer Bug SCIENTISTS MAKE VIRUS FROM INTERNET DNA Irresponsible? Childhood polio is all but eradicted. But the germ's DNA is still online. Web-surfing scientists download code and whip up crippling virus. "The age of synthetic bioweapons is upon us." DNA COMPUTER Leonard Adelman Sends His Regrets Molecular Machines Maybe

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