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...internal poverty," says Lula's foreign-policy adviser, Marco Aurelio Garcia. The nation's founding monarchy, which lasted until 1889, insulated the country from the region's 19th century upheavals but also spawned a quasi-feudal class system that led to the inequalities that persist today. In 2000, fewer than 3% of Brazilians still owned more than two-thirds of the arable land, and the divide between the rich southeast and destitute northeast, where Lula was born, was as stark as ever...
...with what they are actually doing, teenagers' virtual sex lives may be less a mirror than a mirage, an image of how they see themselves that vanishes as you get up close. The research suggests that even as they get more electronically immodest, they are delaying actual sex, having fewer partners and generally behaving more responsibly than many of their parents did. By all means, come down hard on the kid who uses a phone to cheat or bully or harass or cause harm. But when it comes to baring all, remind them that even if they escape...
...Over the past several months the city has seen a slowdown in requests for building permits, which are another source of revenue. Small projects continue to come through the Inspectional Services Department, but there are fewer large, revenue-generating projects, said Cambridge Building Commissioner Ranjit Singanayagam...
...luckily for ski-resort operators, the flakes have been flush this season. Most U.S. resorts are reporting above-average snowfalls. (Northstar-at-Tahoe, in the Sierras, clocked in with 3 ft. of new snow March 4-5.) So while revenues have slipped - particularly at retail shops and restaurants - fewer people are fleeing skiing than you'd think. Michael Berry, president of the National Ski Areas Association, an industry trade group, projects that total lift-ticket purchases will decline 5% to 6% this season. (See pictures of Bode Miller, the renegade Alpine skier...
...variety, like “Life is Average” or “Life is Not So Good Today,” she replied, “Yeah, I probably would.” Although the failure of the Everything’s Jake store may indicate that fewer people are now buying into what the famous stick figures have to say, some customers take comfort in Jake’s encouraging words. “I like what it says,” declared Toledo’s mother, Maria. “I like what that means...