Word: altos
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From her field office in the town of Alto Paraiso, 150 miles north of Brasilia, Mitraud bears a message to locals that is a delicate mix of dire warnings and creative alternatives. Unless you take steps now, she says--use natural fertilizers, market the cerrado's evergreen flowers and fruits, or turn county-size chunks of the region into nature parks for tourists--your children will inherit a wasteland. The message seems to be getting through: in and around Alto Paraiso, a fourth of the residents live off enterprises that don't involve trashing the land...
...even Mitraud knows there's a battle ahead and that the real challenge comes in spreading environmental passion to a much larger community. "All I can do is implement the process," says Mitraud, as she hurries to another meeting in Alto Paraiso. "If within five years I don't feel like I can leave here, then we've failed." But Mitraud's evangelism seems to be taking root. Says Irani Avelino Nascimento, an unemployed quartz miner turned park guide: "Before, I abused the environment and got little out of it," he says. "Now I respect it and earn a better...
...celebration for the Harvard women's basketball team started in Palo Alto and continued in Cambridge...
Meyers was back with the team at Oasis, another Palo Alto pizza hot spot, on Monday night. The campus restaurant was such a hot spot that WNBA star Jamila Wideman, a Stanford graduate, was munching away on a pizza pie in the middle of the celebration...
Behind 19 points and 11 assists from senior All-American Christy smith, a relentless press and unconscious three-point shooting, the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks (20-10, 7-7 SEC) bounced Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) from the NCAA Tournament, 82-64, last night at Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto...