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...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...
...Mugabe would welcome an exodus of whites as justification for his platform to "give Africa back to the Africans" and command the majority rural vote he needs in the presidential election due by next April. Urban dwellers are largely fed up with Mugabe, so the multi-racial opposition Movement for Democratic Change may do well in the cities. But considering what Mugabe's mobs can do in rural areas like Chinhoyi, the 77-year-old President may already have his re-election in the bag. He has dismissed warnings of diplomatic sanctions from Washington as "racist threats," ignored advice from...
...high-ranking traders - including, presumably, the admiral - now stands an Islamic school. Zheng He, a Muslim, might have approved. Next, we make our way to the center of town, the site of the former palace, once surrounded by huge gardens, temples and lakes. These days there's a modern multi-storied building that houses the state-owned life insurance company, and a pretty little park where children play under the watchful eyes of their amahs. "If you want to see the Calicut of the Zamorins," the professor says. "I'm afraid you have to rely entirely on your imagination...
...plunge at the oasis," is what the Harlem native of this eclectic grotto opines. Wind chimes, fountains, and candles with the warm touch of African and Native American Diasporas sell for less than $50. Ask for a demonstration of the "Magic Dress" ($80- $90) available in vivid solid and multi-colors...
...scientific particulars. But why should it? You could have read a thousand times - perhaps in magazines like this one - that there's little or no scientific evidence for the promises made for many alternative therapies. And yet plenty of educated people regularly buy unproven "natural" remedies. (It's a multi-billion-dollar, multinational industry.) Diamond instead carefully defuses the anti-intellectualism that makes it possible to ignore the good science that questions such cures. "[Science] isn't one particular way of ascertaining a physical truth," Diamond writes. "By definition it is the way of ascertaining physical truth." Such...