Word: marcovaldi
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...easy to see that Maria Marcovaldi loves sea turtles. There is an image of the long-lived beast (some reach age 70) on her T shirt. And miniature re-creations of the animal (which can grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings...
...means she and her husband Guy Marcovaldi. Together Maria, 40, and Guy, 44, run Brazil's National Sea Turtle Conservation Program. Known less formally as TAMAR (from tartaruga marinha, the Portuguese words for sea turtle), the program protects the five species of marine turtles that trudge out of the Atlantic Ocean to make their nests on Brazil's beaches...
...Helper of Virgins." In the whitewashed committee room, whose unpainted, rickety shutters open on to the rusty municipal balcony, Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway. Let 3,000 lire be given to church funds and 3,000 to municipal charity...
...Marcovaldi had of course not heard a word, but could see that there was trouble. He proposed the formation of the "Clock Dispute Settling Committee." Its decision was that the priest would get the bills, approved by the Clock Committee, then would pay the amount of the bill over to the Clock Dispute Settling Committee, which would hand it over to the Citizens' Committee, which would hand it over to Rocchi...
Then Gallo delivered a memorable line: "Speaking as perhaps the only honest man here. . . ." The rest of his speech was drowned in angry shouts. Only deaf Marcovaldi was unmoved by the uproar. The Great Compromiser proposed that a Comitato per la Posizione dell' Orologio-Committee for Determining the Clock's Position-be formed...