Word: brazilianizing
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...Conservation Team, STING throws an annual rain-forest benefit concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall, writer ARUNDHATI ROY has campaigned to stop the building of dams on India's Narmada River, Hong Kong actor CHOW YUN-FAT has done promotional work for the World Wildlife Fund, and Brazilian singer GILBERTO GIL was so worried about water pollution in his hometown of Salvador, Bahia, that he joined the Green Party and won a seat on the city council. Now it's Leo's turn. So, all you fans, listen up to what...
...Harvard Capoeira group performed a sparring routine including series of flips, handstands and kicks that make up the Brazilian martial art called capoeira...
...their arboreal home. Often he survived on fruit gnawed by monkeys and then tossed away. "I was quite hungry," he recalls. "Spider monkeys are very economical eaters." On the strength of doctoral research into tropical ecology, Van Roosmalen in 1987 got a scientific post in Manaus with the Brazilian government. He is a leading advocate of a 1996 environmental-protection law that enables Brazilian non-government organizations to buy rain-forest tracts for eco-tourism and research...
...discoverer of species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...
...hour day, now comes word that top fashion model GISELE BUNDCHEN, 20, is asking for--and receiving--a record $7,000 an hour to glissade down the runway for the world's top designers. Gisele's rate is hardly scaring off clients; according to Women's Wear Daily, the Brazilian siren was in such high demand at last week's New York City Fashion Week that designer Tommy Hilfiger shelled out $15,000 for Bundchen to do two turns on the catwalk. Of course, there is a downside to being young, rich and beautiful: Marc Jacobs reportedly cut Gisele from...