Word: brazilians
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...days before the Brazilian deal, China secured what may be the most strategically significant agreement of all: Beijing agreed to lend $15 billion to cash-strapped Rosneft, Russia's oil major, and another $10 billion to Transneft, Russia's biggest pipeline company. The loans will be paid off not in cash, but in crude - 300,000 barrels a day from the huge east Siberian oil field. That's about 4% of China's current total demand for crude, secured on very favorable terms. Over the 20-year life of the deal, Beijing will effectively be paying about $20 per barrel...
...grocer frequented and made famous by Child. Students went behind-the-scenes at the butchering station, learning about the preparation of the store’s famed meats, which range from the ordinary—chicken and pancetta—to the exotic—llama, black bear, and Brazilian python. General Manager Juliana Lyman offered a tasting of Savenor’s gourmet products: maple smoked salmon with crème fraiche on water wheel crackers, goat cheese on crusty baguette slices, and freshly seared prime rare strip steak—all washed down with Pellegrino and Poland Spring...
...N.A.S.A.—which stands for North America/South America—to reflect the combination of L.A.-based Spiegel’s specialty in hip-hop and the strong influence of Gonzales’s hometown of São Paolo. The pronounced base line of Brazilian funk is one of the few consistencies on this album, a project five years in the making that features close to 40 artists in often unlikely match-ups. “Gifted,” the lead single, is the clear standout—maybe it’s just...
...writer Ian, was among them--and as many as 100 people died in the hunt. One of the unlikeliest Fawcett hunters, and possibly the last, is David Grann, a 40-year-old journalist who, by his own admission, doesn't even like camping. In 2005 he too entered the Brazilian jungle. Fortunately for him, he came out again. He wrote about his ordeal, and Fawcett's, in The Lost City of Z (Doubleday; 339 pages...
What's more, though they may not admit it, the more moderate Latin leftists who dominate the region's politics today - including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom Obama has invited to the White House in March - know that their own electoral paths were opened in no small part by Chávez's victory in 1998. So it should have come as no surprise that many Latin American Presidents took issue with Obama's suggestion, in a Univision interview last month, that the Venezuelan leader aids terrorists. After all, last summer...