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...Brazil is a particularly rich source of religious art, because during the 17th and 18th centuries it was the only art form encouraged by the country's devoutly Catholic rulers. In the states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the northeast, and Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro in the south, Portuguese settlers built baroque churches dripping with gold, silver and art. But today, much of that art is gone. "The last time I checked, we had registered 188 works of art stolen - that's since 2000," says Vanessa de Souza, a Brazilian police chief and delegate to Interpol. "We think...
...With reporting by Maithili Chakravarthy/New Delhi, Hanna Kite/Hong Kong, Jeffrey Kluger/Budapest, Megan Lindow/Cape Town, Dolly Mascarenas/Mexico City, Amany Radwan/Cairo, Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta, Michiko Toyama/Tokyo, Jennifer Veale/Seoul, Isabel Vincent/Rio de Janeiro, Jane Walker/Madrid and Jodi Xu/Beijin
...decent reason - the global political will to actually do something still seems lacking. It's now 20 years since the issue of climate change was first raised in the U.N.'s General Assembly chamber by the island nation of Malta, 15 years since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and 10 since after the Kyoto Protocol was drafted - and many governments speak as if they'd just discovered global warming. Other concerns remain more pressing, including the war in Iraq - a fact that was made apparent when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahadinejad (who skipped the climate meeting) gave his speech...
Furthermore, Harvard’s relationship with Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) is a very productive one: Several students from the 2006 program have gone on to spend whole terms studying at the university. PUC deserves no more criticism for being a private rather than public institution than Harvard does. In addition, the Office of International Programs and other sources of funding at Harvard provide grants to reduce the $5,500 cost—which includes a package of tuition, housing, activities, and weekend excursions—for most participants...
...writer participated in the Harvard Summer School program in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...