Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live up to its expectations, Alonzo enjoyed the best season of her life and broke all of her personal records. She also made great strides out of the water. The biochemistry concentrator will be attending University of Pennsylvania medical school next year after spending the summer in Brazil...
...Pacific. The United Nations and World Bank sponsored the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to sustain forests, but instead the plan spurred further deforestation. When asked by an environmentalist what he meant by sustainable, a World Bank agronomist replied, "Fifty years of timber production." Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, who along with their martyred leader, Chico Mendes, became symbols of the sustainable use of tropical forests, overexploit their ecosystem. Writing in the journal BioScience, John Browder notes that in search of food and sources of cash, these seringueiros can kill off wildlife and cut forests...
...some cultures, it is more or less accepted that "straight" men will nonetheless have sex with other men. The rapid spread of AIDS in Brazil, for example, is attributed to homosexual behavior on the part of ostensibly heterosexual males. In the British upper class, homosexual experience used to be a not uncommon feature of male adolescence. Young Robert Graves went off to World War I pining desperately for his schoolboy lover, but returned and eventually married. And, no, he did not spend his time in the trenches buggering his comrades-in-arms...
...change the system; change the people. That's the message Brazilians sent in a national plebiscite on their form of government. Preliminary tallies showed voters favoring the current presidential system over a parliamentary option by 2 to 1. And republicans roundly defeated those favoring a revival of Brazil's monarchy, 66% to 11%. Most telling, nearly half the eligible voters boycotted the compulsory election or spoiled their ballots. With inflation nearing 30% a month, many Brazilians felt the plebiscite missed the point...
...powered catamaran Commodore Explorer, French adventurer Bruno Peyron and his crew of four sailed triumphantly into France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of whales off Brazil, cracking a hull, and nearly lost two crewmen in a mid-Atlantic gale. Ultimately, Peyron prevailed through wit and guile, not technology. Fogg would have approved...