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...JANEIRO, January 11 - A few things to know about Brazil...
...point in the tour the bus stops at Catedral de Sao Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess...
...JANEIRO, Jan. 10 - The first thing I notice about Brazil is all the green. My plane, American Airlines Flight 973 out of Kennedy Airport, is coming in for a landing in Rio de Janeiro. The landscape below is strikingly hilly and lush and green, a kind of original emerald that makes the color we have in back in the United States seem like it's been through the wash a few too many times, or that we've been viewing the world all these years through a television badly in need of a color adjustment. This is a green...
...arrive at my hotel in Rio de Janeiro, the first person I see in the lobby is Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M. He's standing near the concierge desk at the Copacabana Palace wearing a green T-shirt and white bath slippers with blue straps. He's got stubble going on his chin and cheeks that's somewhere between I-haven't-gotten-around-to-grooming-myself-lately and I'm-growing-a-beard-as-part-of-a-midlife-change. As he leaves the hotel I think, wow, alternative rock has gotten a little old. Stipe...
Durston will travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to teach music and environmental science to children...