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...Three explosions rocked the biggest offshore oil platform in the world, killing 10 workers. More than 160 people were rescued from the Petrobras rig, which threatened to sink about 200 km north of Rio de Janeiro. The accident was expected to delay Brazil's plan to achieve energy self-sufficiency by 2005. The wells from the 40-story-high platform pumped 80,000 barrels a day, about 5% of Brazil's petroleum production. The rig, the pride of Brazil's petroleum industry, was listing at 30 degrees after the explosion. If it sinks, it could release 1.5 million liters...
...Here's how to get started. There are a couple of basic sites, such as radio-stations.net and Web-Radio.com, which can link you to station websites by genre, from news, sports and talk to country, techno and hip-hop, or you can pick a location - say, Brazil - and surf or samba at will. Radio-locator.com, a site designed by the geniuses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a great geographical guide. You can also search the larger sites by using the call letters of a specific station to pull in the BBC, for example, or New Jersey's WFMU, which Rolling...
...model, she said, which is now being emulated in Japan, Brazil and Canada, and which theoretically gives 90 million consumers access to her myriad selection of content and products each...
...products-the market has grown by an average of 9% a year for the last decade-and one can see why so many farmers seem buffeted by forces beyond their control. Farmers in Britain questioned why the government allows the import of any beef from countries such as Botswana, Brazil and Argentina, where foot-and-mouth is endemic. Says Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, an organic farming lobbying group: "The globalization of agriculture is presumed to be a good thing, treating food commodities like processed steel and shipping it around the globe. We don't want that anymore...
Environmentalists and others have objected to a key element of Swaminathan's plan--genetically-modified foods--saying the ecological impact is uncertain. Already, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and other countries have curbed farmers' use of these modified crops...