Word: brazile
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...form of health insurance, out-of-pocket payments for medical care amount to 98.4% of total health expenditures by households, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers study, which estimates that 20 million people in India fall below the poverty line each year because of indebtedness due to health-care needs. In Brazil and China, both countries India often compares itself with, the public share of health-care spending is around 40%, while the average for G7 countries is 70%. In India it is just...
...announced a new initiative called OpenSocial. OpenSocial wants to be like Facebook's platform, only much bigger: Widget makers can write applications for it and they can run anywhere - on MySpace, Bebo and Google's own social network, Orkut, which is very big in Brazil...
...follows on the heels of his many previous donations towards Harvard’s Latin American studies center. His previous donations offer ample evidence for what donation with a vision can do. Since its creation in 1994, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies has opened offices in Brazil, Chile and Cambridge, supporting Harvard students and faculty in an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the complexity of Latin American studies. The Center organizes events and conferences to bring scholars together, provides grants to students and faculty, and produces publications that disseminate scholarship concerning Latin America...
...wrong to attribute a significant part of the increase in Amazon deforestation to biofuels, as Mr. Grunwald does. First, suggestions that Brazil is a major culprit in global warming are not supported by scientific facts or reliable statistics. Second, the growth rate of Brazilian emissions has been on the decline primarily because of decreasing rates of Amazon rain-forest deforestation, which is the main source of carbon emissions in Brazil, and increasing use of ethanol fuel. Furthermore, from 1970 to 2005 the use of ethanol in our energy mix has averted the emission of 644 million tons...
...underlying idea--that even the most minute aberrations could have vast repercussions on larger systems--gave birth to the modern field of chaos theory. He captured the public's imagination with the elegant concept in a 1972 paper titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Though Lorenz initially used a seagull as his example, he settled on the more poetic creature, giving rise to the term butterfly effect...