Word: brazile
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...were disrespectful to the delegates, U.N. officials and the U.N. as an institution that represents our ultimate hope for peace. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should take measures to avoid such occurrences in the future and uphold the dignity of the institution. José Thomaz Gama da Silva Belo Horizonte, Brazil Instead of criticizing Chavez for his verbal attack on the President, perhaps we should ask why foreign leaders like him are attacking Bush. Has a U.S. President ever been so vilified worldwide? Is the rest of the world wrong? I applaud the courage of Chávez, Iran's President...
...French barely reacted to those seismic shifts, largely because global wine consumption has been growing, up about 10% in the past decade, to 240 million hectoliters annually. But now there's a rude awakening. So many countries have got into the winemaking business like Turkey, China, Brazil--that the world is currently awash in the stuff. In 2004 worldwide production hit its highest level in 20 years, almost 300 million hectoliters, or 15% more than the previous year. The glut is hurting producers everywhere, particularly in Australia, which has surplus wine stocks that exceed a year's worth of exports...
Indeed, since the end of the cold war in 1991, not all the news on the nuclear front has been bad. South Africa, Ukraine and, more recently, Libya all willingly gave up nuclear weapons or the pursuit of them. Brazil and Argentina formally abandoned any thought of going nuclear. "I would also disagree with the basic premise that the pressure is all in the direction of going nuclear," says Mark Fitzpatrick, a proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The North Korea test, he says, will have only marginal effects on how other countries view their...
...Countries with nuclear weapons; not NPT signatories ?Argentina, Brazil, Chile...
Whether it's Brazil, China or Russia, it's tough to find a television market where CSI: Miami is not on the prime-time schedule. Although the two other shows in producer Jerry Bruckheimer's franchise--CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York--are also hits, the lush, exotic backdrop of Miami coupled with its high-tech whodunit forensics have made Miami the most popular TV drama on the planet. More than 40 million viewers a week tune in compared with 18 million in the U.S. It's Top 10 in most countries where it airs...