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...PAULO Brazilian celebrities like photographer J.R. Duran and actor Reynaldo Gianecchini sport Tiffany & Co.'s simple Mark...
Thousands of miners staged a violent two-week demonstration last September in Las Claritas, Venezuela, close to the Brazilian border. They blocked the border highway, burned trucks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at national-guard troops. Their main target was Crystallex, a Toronto-based company that since 2002 is said to have held the legal rights to Las Cristinas--the world's fifth largest gold mine, with 12.5 million oz. of proven reserves...
West African governments, some of which backed the Brazilian case, say the debate has dragged on for so long that they not only want subsidies to be cut but also need compensation for export-earning losses. "Africans are in a situation that if they don't do anything, it's possible that the cotton sector will disappear," says ministerial adviser...
...West African governments, some of which backed the Brazilian case, say the debate has dragged on for so long that they not only want subsidies to be cut but also need compensation for export-earning losses. "Africans are in a situation that if they don't do anything, it's possible that the cotton sector will disappear," says ministerial adviser K?b?...
Alcohol consumption in Brazil is on the rise, but not because people are drinking more. Instead, drivers are filling their gas tanks with ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, which is one of two fuel options used in a new generation of Brazilian cars called Flex. The cars work like traditional vehicles but can run on either gasoline or ethanol derived from sugar cane--a commodity in abundance in Brazil. Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat and GM all produce Flex lines. In May sales of Flex vehicles overtook gasoline models for the first time. By August, Flex sales had risen 61.7%. "I am hard...