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...former French Premier and Minister of Education who now serves as Minister of Social Affairs, the members spent 14 months and $400,000 analyzing education throughout the world. They visited 23 countries, interviewed scores of educators and solicited 81 special reports from such experts as Gunnar Myrdal, Jean Piaget, Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich...
...eight, he was learning to drive by backing the car out of the family garage in São Paulo. He was building and racing go-karts at 15, speedy competition cars by the time he was 20. At 22, he put together $3,300 and left Brazil for Britain to break into big-time European racing. Today, little more than three years later, Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi is the most successful race-car driver in the world. Last week he wheeled his Lotus around the 3.51-mile track at Monza, Italy, to win both the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix...
Ironically, it was man who loosed the troublesome bee in the first place. In 1956 Warwick Kerr, a Brazilian geneticist in the state of Sāo Paulo, decided to breed the perfect honey-producing bee. He wanted to combine the best attributes of the hard-working but highly aggressive African bee (Apis mellifera adansonii) with gentler but lazier European strains. Before the hybridization could occur, 26 swarms of African bees accidentally escaped, mated with native bees, flourished and spread. The offspring, known as Brazilian honey bees, are precisely what Kerr wanted to avoid; they have inherited none...
Impressed with the Garibaldi resort's $5,000-a-month profit, the Brazilian government is lending Santini more than $2 million to build similar complexes near Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Brasilia. Making money, though, was not on Santini's mind when he began his quixotic quest to put Brazilians on skis. "My real ambition," he says, "is to see a Brazilian ski team in the Olympics-even if they finish last...
...stop right-cheer," drawled the sandy-haired American speeding in a car along a bumpy highway outside São Paulo, Brazil. What had caught his darting blue eyes was a sign on an open lot proclaiming Vende-Se. "That means 'for sale'-and those are the only words I understand in this language," the American explained. Then he bounded out of the car and swiftly paced off the dimensions of the property, rattling a staccato of questions to a tag-along group of aides: "Who is the owner? What's the tax rate? How many cars...