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LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 25, 2011


Student protests may lead to a better Chile
MiamiHerald.com
Before we get into what went wrong, we have to remember that Chile has one of the best education systems in Latin America. In the latest international PISA test of 15-year-old students in math, science and reading comprehension, Chile ranked No. ...
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AEGIS GROUP : Latest Carat Adspend Forecasts - August 2011
4-traders (press release)
The faster-growing regions of the world – particularly China, Russia and Latin America – will continue to eclipse performances from the developed economies. In terms of the growth in media share digital remains the leader of the pack, with Out of Home ...
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Sir Martin Sorrell on latest WPP profit figures
BBC News
Sales have risen by 5% in the UK and in North America, as well as by 10% in Latin America and South-East Asia. Wake Up To Money spoke to its chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell. For more 5 live highlights, please visit the best bits page. ...
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BBC News
Akira Tana: Secret agent jazzman
San Jose Mercury News
... like reed player Melecio Magdaluyo, guitarist Jeff Buenz and bassist Gary Brown, all-purpose sidemen well versed in Latin American grooves. Percussionist Kenneth Nash, who rounds out the ensemble, has been a true secret agent in recent years. ...
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Cholera pandemic's source discovered
EurekAlert (press release)
From this base, it has since infected people around the world, including Africa, South Asia andSouth America. "Looking at the past 40 years of transmissions from continent to continent, we found that the Bay of Bengal acts as a reservoir for cholera, ...
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Will Goldcorp's Latest Pattern Pay Off For Investors?
Investor's Business Daily
The Canadian company has low-cost, high-output mines in relatively stable parts of North and South America. Will Goldcorp's Latest Pattern Pay Off For Investors? Mining companies tend to be cyclical and Goldcorp's earnings track record has had its ups ...
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WPP Cautious For 2012 Amid Global Macro Fears
Wall Street Journal
Results were boosted by fast growth in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa but also the UK and some improvement in Western Continental Europe. Growth in the US, however, slowed, and markets such as Belgium, Canada, France, Germany and Japan were ...
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Liverpool Transfer News: Latest Buzz on Sebastian Coates, Joe Cole and More
Bleacher Report
The Uruguayan national team member was considered one of the top defensive prospects in South America and, if the transfer is agreed upon, will now get the chance to show off his skills in England's top league. There will undoubtedly be a transition ...
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Bleacher Report
Mexico: inflation at a standstill but should investors worry?
Financial Times (blog)
If inflation concerns have returned to some Latin American economies, there is almost no sign of it in Mexico. Prices went up a mere 0.09 per cent during the first half of August, only half the amount analysts had expected. The latest data, published ...
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Financial Times (blog)
OnMobile sees no issues in delivering 15-20% growth YoY
Moneycontrol.com
The Latin American project is the largest project and it is absolutely on track. In the month of August, we will cross Rs 4 crore of revenues to OnMobile from that single project. It is growing rapidly at almost 50-60% QoQ. ...
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Bolivia urges US aid agency expulsion
Press TV
He further pointed out that the expulsion of the American aid agency would show "the same courage" as the 2008 kicking out of the US ambassador to the Latin Americancountry. Quintana went on to say that the move should be considered as a "self-defense ...
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Press TV
Nogueira the Latest Soccer Signing, Inks with Internacional
Sherdog.com
This Wednesday night, Internacional will face Argentine club Independiente for the South-AmericanRecopa title. Internacional's marketing department has prepared a special video to show on the stadium's big screen during the match. ...
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WPP's interim results: profits up 37%
MediaTel Newsline
Latin America was the strongest growth region with revenues over 12%. BofA Merrill Lynch said the interim results are "reassuring" - 2% ahead on FD EPS, with organic growth broadly in line at 6.1%. The group recommends to buy with a PO of 735p. ...
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MediaTel Newsline
THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER announces SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Movie City News
A little-known classic of Latin American cinema, INVASIÓN (1969) was the first work conceived specifically for the cinema by the great Jorge Luis Borges, in collaboration with his friend Adolfo Bioy Casares. A kind of updating of The Illiad that ...
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Holland knock Spain off top spot in latest Fifa world rankings
The Guardian
Uruguay's Copa América success means they are now the top South American side in fifth, with Brazil dropping down to sixth. Germany remain in third and England move up to fourth, while the make-up of the top 10 remains the same, with Italy, Portugal, ...
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The Guardian
UFC 134 Results: Full Fight Card
Bleacher Report
However, the world's largest MMA promotion hasn't made its way to the South American country since October 1998. This Saturday, the UFC will return to Brazil for the first time in nearly 13 years for UFC 134 in Rio de Janeiro. ...
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Bleacher Report
Nicaraguan Fall Kills Belfast Teacher
4RFV
The latest person to die in foreign parts was Michael McClean, 26, who was hiking up a mountain or volcano with his brother Conor during a tour of South America, when the accident happened. Relatives have flown out on Wednesday to bring the young man's ...
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Value Investor Bruce Berkowitz's 5 Newest Stock Picks
Seeking Alpha
Citigroup is also strong in the emerging markets, and the hiring of Marcia Rothschild should help the company's business in Latin America. On the other hand, the company has had some regulatory issues, and costs have been rising. ...
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Lenovo Group Becomes Number Three Manufacturer of PCs
TMC Net
PC shipments in Africa, Latin America, and other markets also rose 45.7 percent in the latestquarter (one year earlier). Although some of the company's shipments fell behind in China (due to supply constraints), Lenovo still plans to move into mobile ...
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Tata Chemicals on buying spree
Business Today
... to targeted markets in Africa, North America, Latin America and India. Prior to this in December 2010, Tata Chemicals' wholly owned subsidiary Brunner Mond, UK, had acquired 100 per cent stake in British Salt for 93 million pounds (Rs 700 crore). ...
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Business Today
Marriage and divorce, Texas-style
Houston Chronicle
The latest statistics come from the 2009 American Community Survey, an attempt to offer more detail about marriage, divorce and widowhood and fill the void left when the National Center for Health Statistics stopped collecting similar information in ...
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WHO consultant says education, quality hygiene, immunisation remain key to ...
Daily Sun
Towards the fall of the last decade, the world's number one health monitor had succeeded in routing the scourge in Europe, North and South America and Australia. According to it, only Asia and Africa then still haboured the Polio Virus (WPV) within ...
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Angie Mead and Stephen Howard are Redgrave
Chicago Sun-Times
Her latest album, “Afrodiaspora,” pays homage to the pervasive African influence uponLatin-American music and culture. Known for her cool seductive vocal style, Baca recently was appointed cultural minister in Peru, making her the country's first ...
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Dividend Watchdog: How Safe Are These 5 Yields?
Seeking Alpha
Operating in the utility arena of telecoms, Spain's Telefonica's Mediterranean concerns have been under performing recently, though their Latin American side is doing well. It has a lower price to earnings ratio than Vodafone (VOD), ...
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Off the Record: Music News
Austin Chronicle
27, Danny Crooks is planning an all-star benefit for the League of United Latin American Citizens 4876 at the Texas Music Theatre, featuring the Garzas, Vitera, Patricia Vonne, and Vallejo. Preceding that will be a free family outing in the town square ...
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Austin Chronicle
NASA sees drop in global sea level
OCRegister
This time around, La Niña fueled powerful storms and flooding in Australia and South America, he said. Ocean evaporation, meanwhile, is the key to the drop in sea level. "The atmosphere sucks up a huge amount of water from the ocean every year," Willis ...
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Sergent Garcia: Infectious blend of genres
San Francisco Chronicle
He wasn't the first person to blend Afro-Cuban and Afro-Colombian rhythms with reggae, but his self-proclaimed salsamuffin sound has resonated far and wide across Latin America. With politically charged lyrics, mostly in Spanish, set to memorable ...
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Mack Brooks to Launch Fastener Fair in Thailand
TSNN Trade Show News (blog)
This latest addition follows the launch of Fastener Fair Mumbai and Fastener Fair São Paolo earlier in the year as part of Mack Brooks' expansion into growth markets in Asia and South America. A total of 90 exhibitors, of which 45 were from overseas, ...
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Money’s 100 Best Places to Live in America has 5 NJ towns
newjerseynewsroom.com
BY WARREN BOROSON Money Magazine’s latest list of “100 Best Places to Live in America†(September) includes five towns in New Jersey: Montville (number 17), South Brunswick (22), Ridgewood (26), Madison (33), and Hillsborough (53). “Arts and ...
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WPP plc's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
In Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. We saw growth in the first half of 10.5%. Split between Asia-Pacific, 10.3% and Latin America growth 17%. Recorded split growth in quarter 1 of 10.5% and growth in quarter 2 of 9.6%. ...
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Warm, wet - and warring?
BBC News
The warm El Nino phase brings rain to the western coast of South America and hot, dry conditions further east. Africa is visited by both heavy rains and drought. According to the Columbia research, El Nino also brings conflict. ...
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BBC News
The Newspaper of the Harvard Business School
Harbus Online
Around 50 students escaped the harsh Boston winter for a week in sunny Mexico on HBS's firstLatin American IXP. Under the guidance of Professor Michael Chu, the group visited a number of companies in Oaxaca, Mexico City and Monterrey learning about ...
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Music
Boston Globe
800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com TOMMY STINSON The former member of the Replacements, sometime member of Soul Asylum, and current bass slinger for Guns N' Roses hits the road for a brief solo jaunt before heading back to South Americawith Axl and ...
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Boston Globe
Gene study links Haiti's cholera outbreak to Nepal
CIDRAP
From there the bacteria spread in multiple waves to different parts of the world, including Africa, South Asia, and South America. They found that the bacterium first acquired antibacterial resistance in 1982, which renewed transmission across the ...
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Bush Finger by Public
OpEdNews
In 2008, that number had grown to 49 percent and by 2009 to 61 percent and the latestsurvey reported that 77 percent of American families are living paycheck to paycheck. Another survey found that 64 percent of American families said that they could ...
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OpEdNews
Solera Holdings' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
And I'll point to Latin America as an example. And where do you stand with the hiring of operational leaders right now? We're becoming a bigger company. We're preparing for that billion in revenue, $450 million in EBITDA. To get a Solera qualified ...
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European shares advance
iAfrica.com
Elsewhere, marketing giant WPP announced that first-half profits jumped 53 percent, boosted by strong growth in Asia, Latin America and Britain, despite the uncertain economic outlook andrecent market turmoil. In London deals, BHP's share price rose ...
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Black Caucus Criticizes Obama, Calls Tea Party 'Racist'
Christian Post
“Today's Tea Party movement is merely the latest of a series of attacks on American democracy by the white Southern minority, which for more than two centuries has not hesitated to paralyze, sabotage or, in the case of the Civil War, destroy American ...
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Only 1 in 7 Ob/Gyns Now Perform Abortions, Survey Finds
U.S. News & World Report
But the latest numbers, to be published in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, don't necessarily paint an accurate picture of abortion in contemporary America, according to those on both sides of the abortion debate. ...
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Wunderlich Securities Media Analyst Matthew Harrigan to Weigh In on Sirius XM ...
Satellite Radio Playground
He has been recognized multiple times on the Wall Street Journal Best on the Street compilation and was also an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for both Latin American media and for boutique coverage. Prior to joining Wunderlich Securities, Inc., ...
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Satellite Radio Playground
Latin American art museum in Long Beach gets new CEO | 89.3 KPCC
The only Southland museum that focuses on Latin American art has a new man in charge. Cuban-born Stuart Ashman is set to take the helm of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach in two weeks.
KPCC: Latest News
Expat Daily News Latin America: And in the Latest News from Venezuela…
Expat Daily News Latin America. News, information, and articles for expatriates and ... President Hugo Chávez returned from Cuba after the latest round of chemotherapy, .... December 2010 (23), November 2010 (10), September 2010 (22) ...
www.expatdailynewslatinamerica.com/.../and-in-latest-news-fr...
Latest News | Global Finance
Latest News | Global Finance. UPDATE: Brazil July Lending Volume Advances At Softer Pace ...Credit in Latin America's largest economy continued to expand in July despite the ... Mortgages rose 3.4% from June and 47.1% from July 2010, ...
www.gfmag.com/latestnews/latest-news-old.html?newsid=1...
Renewed UK interest in South America | Gateway to South America's ...
Gateway to South America's – News Blog ... UK relations with South America have been generally positive and “recent visits from U.K. ... a new rapprochement between the UK and individual South American countries after Argentina's latest ...
www.gatewaytosouthamerica-newsblog.com/.../renewed-uk-in...

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