Word: brazilianizing
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...friends and business associates in Rio de Janiero said to Rodrigo Baggio five years ago when he told them about his dream to bring technology into the city's sprawling slums, called favelas. He didn't listen. Now Baggio, 30, operates 117 computer schools in the slums of 13 Brazilian states through his Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology (CDI). Most of the 32,000 young people who have completed classes either have jobs or are starting their own businesses. Without Baggio's inspired idea, most of them would have faced a bleak life. On the heels...
...Brazilian doctors performed a Caesarian section on Neide Neves dos Santos, 24. She has been in a coma...
...concentration already has tracks for French and Francophone literature, French and Francophone studies, Hispanic literature, Hispanic studies, Italian literature, Italian studies, Portuguese and Brazilian literature, Portuguese and Brazilian studies and romance studies...
...best known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group, the long-lived fusion quartet whose richly textured, Brazilian-flavored albums, with their smooth synthesized surfaces, appeal to listeners for whom jazz is normally a four-letter word. But Metheny has always made a point of playing and recording in a variety of other styles as well. His tastes are exceptionally wide-ranging--he's equally fond of Igor Stravinsky, avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman and the Beatles--and when he's not on the road with the Metheny Group, there's no telling what kind of music...
...dress of next season has already won friends in high-profile places. The python-print frock made its debut in Milan last September at Gucci's Spring/Summer 2000 show. Within days, Vanity Fair had secured a one-sleeved prototype to (almost) adorn CAMERON DIAZ in its current issue, and Brazilian model GISELLE showcases a version with a daring plunge on the cover of the latest Harper's Bazaar. The dress has been making the party rounds as well. A newly brunette GWYNETH PALTROW wore it to a gala for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute, and Heather Locklear...