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...least six other cities are vying for the Games. Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Beijing and a cooperation between Detroit and Windsor, a city in Canada, are all in the running...
...more Americans are discovering that faraway places can yield up challenging occupations. Gregory Piccininno, 29, a New Jersey native and a graduate of the London Business School, found himself drawn to what he calls the "savage capitalism" of Brazil. He works for a Brazilian financial firm in Rio de Janeiro, socializes mostly with local friends, with whom he speaks Portuguese, and has no plans to leave anytime soon. "As a non-Brazilian, I get a lot of respect, if for nothing else than my abilities in English," he says...
...some consensus language that papers over the conflicts, which usually happens with U.N. documents. The need for consensus reduces action plans to pallid, inoffensive wish lists that quickly disappear into bureaucratic oblivion after the signing ceremonies. Such was the outcome of the Earth Summit that convened in Rio de Janeiro two years ago. But continued indecisiveness on the population issue may be a formula for disaster. Speaking in Washington recently, Nobel-laureate physicist Henry Kendall of M.I.T. observed, "If we don't control the population with justice, humanity and mercy, it will be done for us by nature -- brutally...
...Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Ian McCluskey...
What is he doing in Rio de Janeiro? To judge from the antics in his latest novel, Brazil (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), he seems to be having the sort of good time that not everyone will appreciate...