Word: brazile
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...then there was Brazil. Ah, Brazil, whose poetry on the ball made all the European varieties of the game look prosaic. They emphasized the sort of showoff individual skill and creativity that most European training regimes had knocked out of their youngsters by the time of adolescence, creating a giddy and melodic form of the game (personified by the young Pele) in which players routinely did the unpredictable - shooting from 40 yards out; scoring with their backs to goal via an overhead kick; running over the ball to fake out an opponent; as a matter of course taking defenders...
...when Adams chose to spend the spring semester studying in Brazil, it put a dent in her plans for leadership on the council and the Black Students Association, where she was also active...
Language differences presented a challenge for Sara N. Lewis ’04 in Rio de Janeiro. But Lewis writes in an e-mail that she found that her classes on Brazilian Contemporary Economy, Portuguese, Brazilian History and Race Relations and Ethnic Identity in Brazil had a lighter workload than her Harvard classes...
Lewis had planned to run for a board position in Fuerza Latina, but says her trip to Brazil in fall 2002 made that impossible...
...example, Southeast Asia and Latin America catch up economically and the inhabitants adopt Western lifestyles, their problems with obesity catch up as well. By contrast, among people who still live in conditions most like those of our distant Stone Age ancestors--such as the Maku or the Yanomami of Brazil--there is virtually no obesity...