Word: braziller
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...Costa Rica, for example, which has an average annual income that is only about one-fourth the U.S. level, boasts a life expectancy of 76 years--almost identical to the U.S.'s. Reason: Costa Rica disbanded its army in 1949 and focused public spending on basic health and education. Brazil, by contrast, has almost the same average income as Costa Rica, but a life expectancy that is 10 years lower. Brazil has greater social inequalities, and much of the population lives in deep poverty...
...ships, is a meticulous naval scholar and medical historian. The battles in which Aubrey distinguishes himself and Maturin repairs the wounded are real, borrowed from history (the two are passengers on H.M.S. Java when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba...
...PAULO: Brazilians -- at least some of them -- are ready for the knife. In gubernatorial elections in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest and richest state, voters have reelected Gov. Mario Covas, a close ally of President Enrique Cardoso. That means the imminent implementation of Cardoso's own brutally honest reelection platform: more taxes, less spending and an IMF bailout that will make life tough on pretty much everybody...
...Baha'i Question" in a secret document dated Feb. 25, 1991, and signed by Ayatollah Khamenei. The secret document declared that Baha'is must be expelled from universities, denied employment and their "cultural roots" outside Iran destroyed. (The 100,000 American Baha'is received special mention, as did Brazil, Canada and Germany...
...Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a leader of the campaign. "Stopping them from selling old growth is the most important thing we can do to save these ancient cathedral forests and these 2,000-year-old trees." Only 22% of the world's old-growth forests remain intact, mostly in Brazil, Canada and Russia...