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...could make a difference - but again, the sheer scale of that growth requires far more. "We need to develop that leapfrog attitude for developing countries," said Jose Goldemberg, the panel's co-chair and a professor at the Institute of Electrotechnics and Energy at the University of Sao Paulo...
...addition to paying to staff the Brazil Studies Program’s office in São Paulo and to provide opportunities for international study and work, the new endowment will fund professors who gear research on topics such as labor inequities and HIV/AIDS toward Brazil...
Because the program has already functioned for a year—the Brazil Studies Program was launched in May 2006 through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the São Paulo office opened in July of 2006—Maxwell said that distributing the funds will not pose a major challenge...
...last thing they need is more work. There were 73,202 accidents on the roads of Greater São Paulo last year and 1,487 fatalities. The situation is exacerbated when emergency vehicles get tangled in backups that can stretch for 100 miles (160 km) at rush hour. The congestion is so bad that the city forbids 1 in 5 cars, depending on license-plate number, from leaving home at peak travel times each day. But the streets are still a mess. "Ambulances often simply can't get through," says Carlos Eid, a doctor with the Brazilian Association...
Enter motorbike medics, who flit between slow-moving cars and speed around stopped traffic. The two-wheeled first responders are dispatched from the 15 firehouses closest to São Paulo's main drags. Other cities employ moto-medics--London, Kuala Lumpur and Miami, among them--but in Brazil the program holds special significance since there is no centralized 911 and firefighters have become the go-to guys when accidents occur, perhaps because the country's health service is in disarray and the police are among the nation's least esteemed public servants. "People trust us," says fire department spokesman...