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Those workouts were essential for the impending spring season, which will include the team’s upcoming trip to Brazil to battle the under 23 National Team in Rio De Janeiro. Once they dealt with their embarrassing lack of rhythm, the hard work started to really...
...read Mehta's book, by chance, a few weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro, where 700 favelas, or officially designated slums, spread across the hillsides and seem ready to mud-slide down and swallow up the Sheraton hotel and the condo blocks beneath them. According to one Brazilian friend, 400,000 people arrive at the city's bus station every year, seeking a new life, only to find that all the jobs and houses?and lives?have been taken up by others like themselves. They can survive only by joining the underworld, and a child is seen as irresponsible...
Although Aaron M. Mihaly ’05 went to Rio de Janeiro last spring through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, he said the OIP held sessions on how to receive course credit, avoid culture shock and even get medical insurance overseas...
...others hospitalized. All 15 were beaten with metal piping as they slept on downtown pavements. Police believe the attacks were carried out by a member of a hate group seeking to rid the streets of unwanted elements. The assaults evoked dark memories of a similar case in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 in which off-duty policemen shot dead eight street children...
...Elsewhere, Cap d'Agde in France still remains a popular draw, as does Croatia's Istrian coast. New spots are opening up in Belize and the Dominican Republic. Even Rio de Janeiro?a city famous for its barely there bikinis and near-naked carnival dancers?has now got its first nudist beach, after a decade-long fight with the law. So, if you've ever been curious, now might be the time to take the plunge. "It is often likened to jumping into a swimming pool for the first time," says Mick Ayers of the International Naturist Federation...