Word: brazile
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...development and distribution of cheap alternatives to the AIDS drugs marketed by Western pharmaceutical corporations, which are often priced beyond the reach of most HIV patients in the developing world. Castro also vowed to put Cuba's pharmaceutical industry to work on helping countries such as South Africa and Brazil manufacture generic versions of the drug treatments patented by Western pharmaceutical corporations...
...lives of millions of people, the sanctity of intellectual property is far from assured. While the U.S. may have managed for the most part to stamp out industrial-scale piracy of CDs and movies in the developing world, life-saving medicines are another matter. Companies in India and Brazil, for example, have copied AIDS treatments and distributed them in the developing world at a fraction of the cost charged in the West for the brand-name product. Whatever the outcome of the resulting disputes in the courts and at the World Trade Organization, the moral weight of life-saving necessity...
...Three explosions rocked the biggest offshore oil platform in the world, killing 10 workers. More than 160 people were rescued from the Petrobras rig, which threatened to sink about 200 km north of Rio de Janeiro. The accident was expected to delay Brazil's plan to achieve energy self-sufficiency by 2005. The wells from the 40-story-high platform pumped 80,000 barrels a day, about 5% of Brazil's petroleum production. The rig, the pride of Brazil's petroleum industry, was listing at 30 degrees after the explosion. If it sinks, it could release 1.5 million liters...
...Here's how to get started. There are a couple of basic sites, such as radio-stations.net and Web-Radio.com, which can link you to station websites by genre, from news, sports and talk to country, techno and hip-hop, or you can pick a location - say, Brazil - and surf or samba at will. Radio-locator.com, a site designed by the geniuses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a great geographical guide. You can also search the larger sites by using the call letters of a specific station to pull in the BBC, for example, or New Jersey's WFMU, which Rolling...
...children of Brazil's greatest musicians are taking to the world stage. Last year saw the release of Tanto Tempo by Bebel Gilberto, daughter of bossa nova great Joao Gilberto; Max de Castro, son of bossa nova singer Wilson Simonal, also made a splash with his album Samba Raro. Now Moreno Veloso, son of Tropicalia genius Caetano Veloso, is raising his voice. Veloso's CD (made with bandmates Domenico and Kassin) is no mere echo of his father; his inventive songs have a quiet, vernal charm all their...