Hints and tips:
...Melina Aguilar Colón (who had introduced me to the coffee farmer Jonathan) is my guide. We don’t walk far....
...Jonathan Cushing, head of global health at Transparency International, says: “It is effectively a race to the bottom: whoever signs over the most, will get the vaccines quickest”....
...But his blend of gripping storytelling and fascinating analysis really hits home when he applies it to our present-day situation in his latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Jonathan Cape/Spiegel...
...His replacement, Nelson Barbosa, for all his attempted assurances to investors, was the architect of Ms Rousseff’s “New Economic Matrix” that did so much damage during her first four years in office....
...We have also corrected the spelling of Jonathan Adiri’s name....
...I’m worried he might have a growth in his colon. Is it cancer? My dogs live high. They are little Fauntleroys....
...They act as brand ambassadors as much as sales agents with their neat uniforms and pushcarts adorned with dictums such as “love your colon”....
...But to do so would destroy the court’s credibility, which is high and rising under the leadership of the mensalão trial by Joaquim Barbosa, the first black Brazilian to be appointed to the institution, who...
...Its ColoAd1 product – on the brink of clinical trials for colon cancer – uses the power of natural selection to generate a new strain of adenovirus with extra power to kill cancer cells....
...Composer Jonathan Dove has even written in, Lan tells me, the minute timelag caused by the technology, as performers and singers work in unison across the world....
...The researchers, who plan a first trial in humans, have tested the approach in five cancers – breast, colon, lung, sarcoma and prostate....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com BG: michael.kavanagh@ft.com...
...Finance director Ashley Almanza is stepping down in March (he will continue with BG for up to two years), to be replaced by Fabio de Oliveira Barbosa, the former numbers man at Brazilian miner Vale....
...“This has more to do with politics than foreign exchange,” says Rubens Barbosa, a former Brazilian ambassador to London and Washington. “Brazil is moving closer to China than to the US and Europe.”...
...Mr Barbosa was speaking on a call to discuss Vale’s annual results for 2009, which showed a sharp fall in net profits to $5.35bn from $13.22bn in 2008....
...Jonathan Isaby reported the gist of it last week....
...asks Jonathan Wheatley. Medical tourism rarely combines medical procedures and tourism quite as literally as it does in Brazil....
...“The world knows it cannot go forward without these countries,” says Rubens Barbosa, a former ambassador to London and Washington....
...Almir Barbosa, head of investor relations, said Petrobras would need to raise a further $10bn to cover its investments in 2010 and that the extra funds would not come from the national development bank....
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo...
...So when Platou was diagnosed with colon cancer just six months after Smartflow Finance, their innovative loans business, began trading, the co-founders had to act fast....
...We have a lot of the “worried well” in the clinic, people prepared to pay, say, £800 for a screening for colon cancer – to check that they are still healthy....
...His only other peeve is the way the magazine treats the semi-colon....
...Among them, happily playing with his Pokemon cards in a corner of a quiet ward, is Jonathan Abre, a four-year-old boy, who has had an operation on his tongue....
...“No other developing country is doing this,” Mr Barbosa says....
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