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...Brazil Carves Up Turkey Weblog: Germany vs. Brazil equals a clash of football cultures • Meet TIME's World Cup squad...
...Ultimate Samba Brazil beats Germany 2-0 to cap a World Cup 2002 filled with upsets, controversy and human drama...
...campus style reminiscent of U.S. software firms. Some of the hemisphere's most advanced research in pharmaceuticals, immunology, mammal cell genetics, plant molecular biology and even plant cloning and transgenic experimentation is conducted at the CIGB. The buildings are crammed with state-of-the-art equipment imported from Europe, Brazil and Japan. Visitors pass through myriad barriers that spray visitors, dressed in special suits, with a disinfectant mist. The CIGB, which has its own Intranet, does handle a considerable amount of work with the kinds of bacteria and virus agents that can be used to develop bio-weapons - but then...
...impression left by these tours was that Cuba, even if it wanted to traffic bioterror, is too desperately strapped for cash to market anthrax instead of the more lucrative medicines for which countries such as Britain, Brazil - and the U.S. - have been buying up for millions of dollars in hard currency or medical and technical swaps in recent years...
...many missions and seen many atrocities, all of which have affected me deeply. One of these is the plight of street children, who are exploited and reduced to appalling living standards. On my way to the World Summit on the Environment in Rio in 1992, I stopped in northern Brazil, where I met an 11-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, both prostitutes. The girl had been raped. Whatever she earned on the streets she gave to her mother. I asked her whether she kept any money for herself, and she said she sometimes bought a sandwich...