Word: atlantica
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...Pesquisas Ecologicas (Institute for Ecological Research), an organization co-founded in 1992 by Padua and her husband Claudio, a primatologist at the University of Brasilia. IPE's mission is as simple as it is ambitious: to protect--and insofar as possible--reconnect the last precious remnants of the Mata Atlantica, the great forest that once covered virtually the whole of eastern Brazil...
...Castro was born in Rio and grew up in a luxurious apartment on Avenida Atlantica. As a teen, he listened to American soul music. "At that time Max liked to copy Prince," says Joao Marcello Boscoli, a friend of De Castro's and head of Trama, his record label. "He used to slide across the floor to open the door, playing an imaginary guitar." Soon De Castro discovered the great Brazilian music that had been playing around him all along--Powell, Ben and Moacir Santos. His embrace of the music of his homeland was only logical. His father Wilson Simonal...