Word: brazile
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Over our beers, Klaus tells me he’s a national pool champ. He has also been to all the countries in the world, except for Brazil and Corsica, which are too dangerous. It’s hard to believe what he says. But I don’t have the guts to admit that I’m exhausted and just want to sleep. An hour after midnight, we still look at his holiday photos. Then, he reveals his big dream...
...Brazil, some misguided people vow that it increases sexual prowess; others are under the delusion that it makes a man impotent ... Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx ... The late William Allen White once described Coke as the "sublimated essence of all America stands for." To find something as thoroughly native American hawked in half a hundred languages on all the world's crossroads from Arequipa to Zwolle is still strangely...
Situated in an upscale residential neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Daslu is a repository of Chanel jackets and Frette linens. What makes the store's unbridled luxury even more pronounced is the yawning chasm between the rich and the poor in Brazil. Daslu has no elaborate window displays a la Barneys--the exterior resembles a bunker--and the store is encircled by a phalanx of unsmiling security guards...
...daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oil-field fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals [and] fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms ... For all his flamboyance?he indulges his fondness...
...swept across the island. The storm had earlier contributed to heavy flooding in the Philippines that left at least 21 dead. The storm went on to hit China 's southeastern coast - from where officials had evacuated 1 million people - causing heavy damage but just two fatalities. Mean Streets BRAZIL A series of coordinated attacks in S?o Paulo left six homeless people dead and nine others hospitalized. All 15 were beaten with metal piping as they slept on downtown pavements. Police believe the attacks were carried out by a member of a hate group seeking to rid the streets of unwanted...