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Down the Amazon with Orellana ã at last! MEANWHILE
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International Herald Tribune
11-23-2005
This rough-and-tumble oil town, at the confluence of two rivers, the Napo and Coca, is formally called Puerto Francisco de Orellana, after the 16th-century Spanish conquistador acknowledged as the first European to travel the Amazon's length, at age 30. But its not-so-refined old name, from the leaf from which cocaine is obtained, has stuck. My journey to Ecuador's Amazonian provinces had started in Quito 10 hours earlier. It was...
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`Black Gold' percolates with activism
The Boston Globe
; Movie Review Black Gold Directed by: Marc Francisand Nick Francis In English, Oromifa, and Amharic, with subtitles. Running time: 77 minutes Unrated You buy "fair-trade" coffee; you assume you're being socially responsible. But now, along comes "Black Gold" to tell you that all fair-trade coffee
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'BLACK GOLD' SCORES WITH RICH TALE OF COFFEE'S JOURNEY.(RHYTHM)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; Byline: ROB THOMAS There's a scene in the documentary Black Gold where Tadesse Meskela, who is trying to enlist some Ethiopian coffee growers into his cooperative union, asks them if they know how much a kilogram of their coffee ends up costing in America. He explains that a kilo yields about 80
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There will be boredom: Oil-field drama `Black Gold' monotonous.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: MARK A. PERIGARD BLACK GOLD Series premiere tonight at 10 on truTV.cq Grade: C- From the creator of Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers comes yet another unscripted series that celebrates sweaty men in a dangerous occupation. Black Gold (premiering tonight at 10 on truTV) follows three
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BLACK GOLD FUTURITY ACQUIRED, RENAMED
The Journal Record
; Oklahoma's richest equine progency race program, The Black Gold Futurity Co. of Norman, has been sold to a group of Oklahoma businessmen and horsemen and renamed Black Gold Racing Programs Inc. The Black Gold Futurity is a series of Quarter Horse races which promotes stallions whose: - Owners pay
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Designer bags must be won with Nescafe' Black Gold.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; TO MARK the launch of Nescafe Black Gold, Nescafe are offering eight lucky Sunday News readers the chance to win a specially commissioned handbag from international designer Fiorelli - and a jar of Nescafe Black Gold ...
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Black Gold
The Stranger
; Black Gold dir. Nick Francis and Marc Francis The title of this roughly made agitdoc is supposed to be ironic. Commodity coffee prices are the cheapest they've been in decades, so, unlike gold, the raw material has very little value. In one memorable scene, Tadesse Meskela, the star of the film and
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Black Gold Golf Club to Launch 2007 Player's Club Program October 1
Orange County Business Journal
; Black Gold Golf Club has begun offering a revamped 2007 Player's Club. The program rewards regular golfers with a wide array of promotions, services and amenities, including daily promotions, preferred tee-times, Nike golf gloves, preferred pricing on various range cards as well as merchandise and
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Total Energy Services Trust to Acquire Operating Assets of Black Gold Rentals and Transport
CCNMatthews Newswire
; CALGARY, ALBERTACCNMatthews - Sept. 13, 2005) - Total Energy Services Trust (TSX:TOT.UN) is pleased to announce that its wholly- owned subsidiary, Total Energy Services Ltd ("Total has signed a letter of intent to acquire the operating assets of Black Gold Tank Rentals 2001 Corp. and Black Gold
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Brewing 'Black Gold'
The Washington Post
; Brothers Marc and Nick Francis deliver a by turns poetic and hard- hitting critique of the global coffee industry with "Black Gold." Traveling from the verdant coffee farms of Ethiopia to the manic trading floors of the New York stock market, from the World Trade Organization conference in Cancun,
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`Black Gold' a wake-up call.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: CHELSEA BAIN BLACK GOLD Not rated. At Coolidge Corner Theatre. Grade: B Sorry for the buzz kill, but there's more to a mocha latte than meets the eye. If you've never thought about the trail of your morning coffee before it leaves your barista's hands, you're not alone. After all, the world
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