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When was the last time, as a tourist, that an old man stopped you in the street just to say hello? In a time of overnight city breaks and sequestered spa retreats, shaking hands with old-timers in straw hats with names like Joao Baptista (who turns out to be the local historian) may seem like a simple pleasure, but it is an increasingly rare one. Then again, Ibo Island in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique is a very rare place. (See pictures of luxury private islands...
...Sean was born in New Jersey in 2000, the only son of David Goldman and his Brazilian wife, Bruna Bianchi. However, Bruna brought the child to visit her family in Brazil in 2004 and never returned. She divorced David and married Joao Paulo Lins e Silva, a well-known Rio de Janeiro lawyer. The couple kept Sean in Brazil, and David Goldman's legal efforts to regain custody were rebuffed by Brazilian courts on the grounds that the boy's relationship with his mother was his primary bond...
When scientists were running currents through the device’s magnets in 2008, soon after its completion, a breakdown known as a “quench” occurred that caused overheating, said Joao Guimaraes da Costa, an assistant professor of physics and a member of the Harvard ATLAS team...
...impact in the life of families and our society is much lower than it was before decriminalization," says Joao Castel-Branco Goulao, Portugual's "drug czar" and president of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction, adding that police are now able to re-focus on tracking much higher level dealers and larger quantities of drugs...
...Mendes said, noting that Brazil is currently experiencing the longest period of democracy in its history. “The constitution was enacted at a very special, historic moment, after 20 years of military dictatorship in Brazil—[it] has survived very difficult institutional moments.” Joao Sa, an exchange student from Brazil said that he was drawn to Mendes’ talk because of their shared heritage. “Justice Mendes gives very relevant decisions in Brazil and has a very strong personality. He does not follow his colleagues,” he said. Harvard...