Ultimos Posts 1. 05/07/2005 17:22 - The Music of "The New Heroes" National Public Radio devoted a segment of its program "Day to Day" today to highlight the uniqueness and high quality of the music and soundtrack created specifically for the new PBS documentary "The New Heroes". The archived audio stream is available from the PBS website. "The New Heroes" is the program noted in the preceding post and takes the viewers to Pucallpa and to the work... 2. 05/07/2005 16:27 - In new PBS documentary: Albina Ruiz vale un Peru! Most local affiliates of the Public Broadcasting System aired tonight a new documentary that focuses on what 21st century entrepreneurs are doing in their own developing countries. The program, titled " The New Heroes " and hosted by Robert Redford, kicks off with a detailed report on the extraordinary work that Ms. Albina Ruiz is doing in Peru to eliminate the sub-human conditions... 3. 23/06/2005 03:17 - WSJ quotes de Soto's "Capital" Lionel Tiger, in an editorial piece on the Wall Street Journal of June 22 ( page A10 ), makes reference to Hernando de Soto's research with the following quote: In his lively study, "The Mystery of Capital," Hernando De Soto shows how seemingly disorganized slums in poor countries maintain a precisely gauged metric of rights and obligations. People know their ground, stand their gr... 4. 23/06/2005 00:53 - Public Radio reports on Uros and Lake Titicaca On June 22, the show " Day to Day " of National Public Radio , featured the story " Tourism a Blessing and Curse for Uros Indians ". The audio stream is availble online, and the excerpt mentions that "tourism is having a big impact on the Uros Indians, a tribe of fishermen who live on islands in the middle of Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Peru. The ... 5. 19/06/2005 17:21 - Front page of WSJ: Peru, ukukus and global warming The front page of the Wall Street Journal of Friday, June 17, 2005 presents a 1200-word article that connects the dots among such disparate stories as the Señor de Qoyllur Riti ceremonies, climate change and the work of a scientist at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The WSJ reporter is Antonio Regalado , and the title and subtitle of the... |
