Word: brazile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lived beast (some reach age 70) on her T shirt. And miniature re-creations of the animal (which can grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings low and use unobtrusive lighting," she explains. "That way the turtles don't get disoriented on their...
...means she and her husband Guy Marcovaldi. Together Maria, 40, and Guy, 44, run Brazil's National Sea Turtle Conservation Program. Known less formally as TAMAR (from tartaruga marinha, the Portuguese words for sea turtle), the program protects the five species of marine turtles that trudge out of the Atlantic Ocean to make their nests on Brazil's beaches...
...JANEIRO: Congratulate the Brazilian people for their farsightedness: The current global contagion that has pushed Brazil's government to the brink of disaster has visited equal hardship on its people, yet the nation is poised to reelect President Fernando Enrique Cardoso with the full knowledge that he has even deeper hardship in store. Rarely have the IMF and its usual victims -- ordinary citizens -- been in such agreement...
...feel there's no better leader for Brazil than Cardoso right now," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "But after the election, they're counting on deep budget cuts and austerity measures, and the $30 billion bailout that they're trying to put together will be conditional on that." As always, the economic powers that be are pointing to a light at the end of the tunnel -- an optimism that's selling rather poorly in Indonesia and South Korea right now. But Baumohl says that Brazil is healthy enough -- and vital enough to U.S. interests -- to pull through. "If Brazil...
...country of liberty and freedom, what happened to the right of privacy? Is it gone with the wind? FABIO PESSOA DOS SANTOS Sao Paulo, Brazil...