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...always been a green guy ... ever since I read Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. Obviously, we have to have energy here, but why we don't have alternative energy, like Brazil, is a scandal. As far as what I can do, I have to travel quickly, therefore I use transportation that uses energy, but I hardly use gas anymore. I'll walk...
...Indeed, nature has survived and prospered in the subtropical habitats that surround Brazil's second city. Nobody actually gets eaten by snakes, but more than a few Cariocas have come across them on tile porches and asphalt highways, lost and disoriented by the sounds and smells of a modern metropolis...
When television's fictional Simpson family visited Brazil a few years ago, their customarily extravagant adventures caused consternation. In addition to encountering hordes of street children, oversexed infants and monkeys rampaging around Rio de Janeiro, Homer was kidnapped and Bart was eaten by a snake. Unfamiliar with the concept of satire, Brazilians went nuts. The Foreign Ministry wrote a letter to the show's network, Fox; tourism officials threatened to sue; and Cariocas (as Rio residents are known) protested that Americans knew nothing about what they call the Marvelous City...
...This is a city with a fabulous richness and an almost unique integration of city and nature," says Rogerio Rocco, the former head of Brazil's environment-protection agency in Rio. "People pay to go on safari to see animals close up; we here have an open-air safari on a daily basis. It's priceless...
...World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the International Health Organization of the Rockefeller Foundation. Consultative assignments took him to St. Lucia, Trinidad, Egypt, Thailand, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. In 1972, Weller helped to establish the Wellcome Trust, a research and training center in Salvador, Brazil, for young physicians and scientists interested in tropical medicine...