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...vigorous lobbying by giant agribusinesses, which see the route as a more profitable way to export soybeans. (After the U.S., Brazil is the world?s largest exporter of the crop.) A Brazilian-American consortium is planning to build an enormous dock-and-loading system in Santar?m, the sleepy port that lies at the junction of the Tapaj?s and Amazon rivers, 700 km from the Atlantic Ocean. Exporting through Santar?m might save agribusinesses $1 per 30-kg bag of soybeans...
DIED. DOUGLAS JACOBSON, 74, World War II Marine hero who at the age of 19, in one of the greatest feats of the war, singlehandedly knocked out 16 Japanese hillside fortifications on Iwo Jima, for which he won the Medal of Honor; of congestive heart failure; in Port Charlotte...
...Sydneysiders take for granted an intimacy with nature that would astonish most city residents worldwide. Inner-city suburbs echo to the screech of sulfur-crested cockatoos and the laughter of sturdy kookaburras; brilliant rainbow lorikeets hang upside down in fruit trees squabbling over berries. As night falls, mighty Port Jackson fig trees discharge clouds of flying foxes, while possums patrol urban gardens and clatter across the rooftops. Everywhere, in parks, gardens, at the water's edge, the luxuriant subtropical vegetation-mosses and ferns, cabbage palms, ash and she-oak, ancient angophora forests and a hundred species of gum tree-reminds...
...replica 18th century sailing vessels. The twin architectural highlights of Bridge and Opera House flank a modern CBD that seems to rebuild itself every few years, while an ocean of agreeable, if bland, suburbs unrolls along the highways that linked the rest of Australia to the nation's gateway port. All around, the beauty of the bush enfolds the city in its embrace...
Soon after he arrived, Clinton got some direct evidence of the deadly consequences of the two wars raging in this country, drugs and rebels. At the port, where he saw how Colombians detect and seize illegal drugs carried on speedboats or hidden inside industrial machinery, he met the widows and mothers of 12 military men and police officers slain in the line of duty. One of them broke down and sobbed emotionally as she told the president how her husband had been captured and tortured by rebels before he was killed. "You must help us," she sobbed. "I came...