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Additionally, the influential Brazilian business journal “Exame” has regularly nominated Porto Alegre as the Brazilian city with the best quality of life based on the following indicators: “literacy, enrollment in elementary and secondary education, quality of higher and postgraduate education, per capita consumption, employment, child mortality, life expectancy, number of hospital beds, housing, sewage, airports, highways, crime rate, restaurants, and climate.” The success of this innovative budget process has made Porto Alegre a model for an alternative form of economic distribution...
Harvard was outmatched from the start, as Texas Tech’s lineup of five Brazilian players and one Ecuadorean tore the Crimson apart. The Red Raiders took all three doubles by a score of 8-3, while in singles, Chijoff-Evans, Omodele-Lucien, and Nguyen lost in the top three spots to give Texas Tech...
...professional boxing was ever in any way elegant, UFC has stripped away any of that grace. Based off a form of Brazilian jiu jitsu, which literally translates as “anything goes,” UFC fights, which take place in an octagonal cage, involve flurries of punches, kicks, takedowns, wrestling, and, every so often, a knee to the face. Ultimate Fighting does have a set of rules to which all play must adhere, but even when the prohibitions against eye gouging and against kicking the head of a grounded opponent are accounted for, the result is still...
...Squadron 10 base, Bachelet met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to coordinate the delivery of four Brazilian search-and-rescue units and medical equipment. Air force planes ferried supplies and aid workers to and from the Concepción area. (A plane carrying six aid workers crashed on the way to Concepción, killing all on board, the air force said. The cause of the crash is not yet known...
...program bears the seeds not only of a more effective rebuilding effort in Haiti, but of a new development strategy that's less about top-down, welfare-style aid and more about economy-stimulating engagement of the grassroots. "The old, more paternalistic way of doing charity was easier," says Brazilian aid worker Eliana Nicolini, a UNDP cash-for-work coordinator in Haiti who first helped bring the plan to Port-au-Prince a couple years ago. "This is different - I really believe it has longer-lasting development effects because it's the local community, not the foreign community, that...