Word: brazil
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...comes to gun deaths. What you didn?t know is by how much. A new study from the CDC puts it at 14.24 per 100,000 people, or nearly half the 88,000 firearm deaths reported in the 36 richest nations in 1994 -- easily beating out competition from Brazil, Mexico, Estonia, Argentina and even Northern Ireland. ?I was surprised by the magnitude of the difference,? said researcher Dr. Etienne Krug. ?I was not surprised to find the United States...
...environment for our economy? How should the advancement of a secular global mentality make room for God? As the world becomes increasingly integrated by technology and communications, these questions will become more relevant. Economic shifts in Kuala Lumpur can, we have seen, trigger shocks in Phoenix. The destruction of Brazil's rain forests may kick off climate changes in North America. The world, as we are constantly reminded by our E-mail, our satellite dishes and our economy, is one interconnected place...
Three days before Christmas 1988, Brazil was stunned by the news that Chico Mendes, a humble rubber tapper who had become the country's most famous crusader for the protection of the Amazon rain forest, had been murdered by furious Brazilian landowners. Martyrdom can help fulfill a life's mission, and that was true for Mendes: his death electrified a generation of young Brazilians, who found both magic and meaning in his seductive brand of environmentalism...
...Mitraud, a Sao Paulo university student,was among those seduced. The daughter of a Brazilian economic-planning-ministry bureaucrat, she had been brought up to care more about her Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between...
...Nike do it? Cash. In measures that were seen as both arrogant and amazing, the company got out its checkbook and started writing. World champion Brazil: $200 million, which included the right to promote five exhibition games. The U.S. soccer team: at least $130 million. Nike even tried to steal Bayern Munich, the New York Yankees of Germany, from Adidas. The effort failed, but it forced the German company to triple the price of the previous contract. Nike's appearance, as well as more sophisticated management by the teams, has had a similar effect on the price of sponsorships...