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...Humberto, 54, and Fernando, 45, reuse everything from old rope to soft toys. However fanciful or arty, their work starts from the materials they find, testing properties and limitations. In abstracted form, the pair reflect the zany practicality they see on the poorer streets of São Paulo, their hometown laboratory...
...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...
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...