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...this speculation is spurring a new burst of scholarship about locations all over the Americas. The Topper site in South Carolina, Cactus Hill in Virginia, Pennsylvania's Meadowcroft, the Taima-Taima waterhole in Venezuela and several rock shelters in Brazil all seem to be pre-Clovis. Dillehay has found several sites in Peru that date to between 10,000 and 11,000 years B.P. but have no apparent links to the Clovis culture. "They show a great deal of diversity," he says, "suggesting different early sources of cultural development in the highlands and along the coast...
...million Number of free condoms distributed by prostitutes and health workers in Brazil during Carnival, as part of a government anti-AIDS effort...
...generating resistance within the company as it was going to market. How can you ask a customer to buy a car if even people at Renault don't like it?" Blunt talk such as that is rare in corporate France, but Ghosn is used to breaking molds. Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents and raised in Beirut, he studied in Paris and graduated from the élite Ecole Polytechnique. In 1978 he went to work for tiremaker Michelin, eventually heading the group's South American operations, based in Brazil, before taking over the North American operations. Recruited to the lossmaking...
...administration did not have any part in re-creating the magazine. Topics covered in the new Remix “run the gamut...from prison advocacy to working on Wall Street, from gang violence to fashion,” Anderson said. Williams, who is currently studying abroad in Brazil and could not be reached for comment, wrote in the magazine that it seeks to “provide a fresh perspective; one conversant with the dynamism of urban culture and lifestyle, yet firmly grounded in a tradition of critical academic and intellectual dialogue.” BMF member W. Bilal...
...that represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since his 2002 election, Lula has worked with the markets, introducing reforms to increase income equality. Although corruption scandals have become a Katrina for his political capital, and might even sink his reelection campaign, his whale-sized Brazil sails toward a richer more equal future...