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...upon the upwardly mobile residents of Beijing and Bangalore. The percentage of Indonesia's population living below the poverty line in 1996 was 17.1%, according to the government. There was little improvement by July 2008, when 15.4% of the population lived in poverty. "Indonesia's potential is there," says Luiz de Mello, an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, "but they don't deliver...
...Brazil Spymasters Suspended President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suspended the directors of the Brazilian intelligence agency, ABIN, following allegations that it had tapped the phones of several government officials. Silva has called for an investigation into the scandal, which broke after a Brazilian newsmagazine published the transcript of a telephone conversation between Brazil's Supreme Court President and a Senator...
...stylish players like Deco and Joao Moutinho. Germany was not about to trade scoring chances with that offense and opted for a much more basic approach. The Germans simply knocked over Ronaldo & Co. whenever they could - they outfouled the Portuguese 8-3 in the first half. Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari had feared Germany's size, since it's a team that averages 1.849m (6.06 ft.). Yet it wasn't size that put Portugal in the hole, it was the speed of Bastian Schweinsteiger. Playing wide on the right, Schweini made a terrific diagonal run across the field...
Within days of taking power in January 2003, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew his team of ministers to the three poorest municipalities in Brazil - he wanted the political elite to take a firsthand look at the living conditions of the impoverished voters that had elected them. On a makeshift stage in Brazil's northern scrubland, Lula, like a triumphant band leader, presented his troupe one by one. The crowd welcomed them all politely, but cheered raucously for Benedita da Silva, the black, former housemaid who picked to oversee Lula's social programs, for Culture Minister Gilberto...
Kotok knows nothing about biofuels. He's more concerned about his tribe's recent tendency to waste its precious diesel-powered generator watching late-night soap operas. But he's right. Deforestation can be a complex process; for example, land reforms enacted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have attracted slash-and-burn squatters to the forest, and "use it or lose it" incentives have spurred some landowners to deforest to avoid redistribution...