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China Petroleum (PTR) is buying 45.5% of Singapore Petroleum for just over $1 billion and will probably move to purchase the balance of the company. China recently proposed a deal to lend $10 billion to Brazilian oil giant Petrobras to help it develop deep sea crude deposits. In exchange, the world's most populous nation has negotiated getting a steady flow of oil from Brazil at market prices...
...1960s, Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal, 78, formed the Theatre of the Oppressed, in which "spect-actors" interact with performers to change a story's outcome and its characters' fates...
...passionate advocacy for environmental causes. He has recently helped garner international support around the idea of a rain-forest bond, a method of interim funding designed to ensure that trees are worth more alive than dead until carbon-trading schemes really take off. He has privately lobbied leaders from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the Pope on the issue. That sounds, well, quite political. "His great strength is to be a convener," says an aide. "He can't get directly involved in politics." (See pictures of Prince Charles...
...Brazilian waxes: "A new study suggests that the cultural preference for trim pubic hair is having dire consequences for a pesky parasite that has been freeloading in our personal perfumeries for thousands of years ... It seems that waxing down under is like deforestation as far as pubic lice are concerned...
...enough women reply, "Strap him on!" to make McConaughey veneration a niche industry. Every Matt fan knows MMcC's M.O.: dated Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock and Penelope Cruz; has a 10-month-old son by his Brazilian girlfriend Camila Alves; was questioned by the police for playing bongo drums in the nude; rescued pets after Hurricane Katrina; was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2005 and one of the magazine's Hottest Bachelors a year later; serves as spokesman for the beef industry ("Beef: It's What's for Dinner"); runs a clothing line, and a children's foundation...