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...Brazilian officials said the plane dropped off the radar between the islands of Fernando de Noronha and Ilha do Sal, one of the Cape Verde Islands. Five planes, two helicopters and three boats are involved in the initial search for it, and the French have sent up a military plane from Dakar, Senegal. Brazilian officials cautioned that the search area could be three times the size of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Brought Down Air France Flight 447? | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...Tribe’s Keziel Juneau and Sebastian Vidal, with No. 3 co-captain combination Kalfayan/Clayton beaten by the same score. Harvard secured a lone win, courtesy of the No. 2 duo of sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien and freshman Davis Mangham; the pairing won 8-5 over counterparts Ilha Orre and Varun Pandit.With everything to play for in the singles, the Crimson rallied to swing the pendulum back in its favor. At No. 4, Mangham secured the equalizer with a 6-3, 6-1 win, while No. 1 Clayton defeated Juneau (6-3, 6-4) to help Harvard take...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Splits Time in Virginia | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...touches on their colorful fantasias, the stunning costumes that give carnaval its color, the dour government of President Arthur da Costa e Silva continues its purges and its arrests. Scores of Brazilians are in jail, and some will sit out carnaval in virtual exile, on the lonely island of Ilha Grande, 70 miles off the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Annual Vibrations | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...million. The first power plant to hum will be at Jupiá, where next June three generators will go into action. After that, others will be added every year until, by 1972, 14 are producing 100,000 kw. each. Thirty-four miles upstream, work has begun on the Ilha Solteira Dam, whose 20 turbines will produce 160,000 kw. apiece when they become fully operative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Harnessing the Parana | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...Ilha das Flores, Brazil's Ellis Island in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, the Government has some 200 enemy agents interned. Most difficult of the lot are the Japs, who make a point of posing brazenly in bemedaled uniforms. Before they are captured, however, they mask themselves in ingenious disguises. Dusting a bit of sod off a Jap farmer, Brazilian police discovered what was purportedly General Yusci Tonogawa. Another Jap turned up in the uniform of the Brazilian Officers' Reserve Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spies & More Spies | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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