Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gurdal assembles his staff from variety of backgrounds--employees hail from Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Brazil, Kansas and Atlanta, among other places. Many have either been to culinary school or have experience in the food business...
Even a tour group from Brazil was inspired to join the march...
...group led by Brazilian researcher Ventura Santos produced evidence that a skull found in central Brazil not only has Negroid features similar to Australian aborigines, but predates - by almost 2,000 years - the oldest previously known human remains found in the Americas. This suggests that a race originating in Southeast Asia, not the North Asia of the Mongoloids, inhabited the Americas first. The researchers believe that an advanced group of skilled seafarers originally traveled from Asia to Australia, and, after several millennia, an offshoot of this population set sail again, this time for South American shores...
...decisive evidence of the skull's geographic ancestry will be produced by testing its DNA and comparing it to that of other Negroid peoples, such as Australian aborigines and Africans. The remains of the woman who's spawning the debate, nicknamed Luzia, were found in 1975 outside Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, and were in storage in a Rio museum for a quarter of a century. That sound you hear is the typing of "X-Files" writers: Australian aborigines as an ancient clan of seafaring aliens...
...TREATY] Kyoto Protocol [GENERAL PURPOSE] To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions [OTHER HOLDOUTS] China, India, Mexico, Brazil...