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...Elsewhere, Cap d'Agde in France still remains a popular draw, as does Croatia's Istrian coast. New spots are opening up in Belize and the Dominican Republic. Even Rio de Janeiro?a city famous for its barely there bikinis and near-naked carnival dancers?has now got its first nudist beach, after a decade-long fight with the law. So, if you've ever been curious, now might be the time to take the plunge. "It is often likened to jumping into a swimming pool for the first time," says Mick Ayers of the International Naturist Federation...
Adams’ experience was typical. She calls her time in Rio de Janeiro extremely rewarding, particularly because she could debate world affairs with other international students. But like other students who have taken courses abroad, Adams, a sociology concentrator, says that her classes abroad were much less challenging than at Harvard...
Language differences presented a challenge for Sara N. Lewis ’04 in Rio de Janeiro. But Lewis writes in an e-mail that she found that her classes on Brazilian Contemporary Economy, Portuguese, Brazilian History and Race Relations and Ethnic Identity in Brazil had a lighter workload than her Harvard classes...
...company's growth at a time when it was struggling with $4 billion in asbestos claims. The fact is, war is one of Halliburton's specialties. The firm's comprehensive troop-support contract, called LOGCAP, and its southern Iraq oil-field-rehabilitation contract, known as Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO), require Halliburton to supply whatever the military needs, determined by a constantly shifting set of priorities...
...that raises questions about Cheney's arm's-length policy toward his old employer. Dated March 5, 2003, the email says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" with Cheney's office. The email says Douglas Feith, a high-ranking Pentagon hawk, got the "authority to execute RIO," or Restore Iraqi Oil, from his boss, who is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. RIO is one of several large contracts the U.S. awarded to Halliburton last year...