Word: rios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been arrested. I came up with 500 without really trying," he says. After two years of research, he had 50 photos. The insights from such a noble enterprise? "Celebrities look alike," he says. "And they smack around their wives and girlfriends a lot." MIKE AND SPIKE GO TO RIO...
...could get movie roles but could fill them handsomely. They were, to be sure, tailored to his talent--alcoholics and playboys--and in them he moved easily: as the cowardly G.I. in The Young Lions or the sodden gambler in Some Came Running. He spends most of 1959's Rio Bravo, his best film, staring mournfully at a whiskey bottle he'd like to suck dry. Defeat glazes his eyes; it's the rare movie portrait of an alcoholic that skirts both sensation and sentiment...
...Jakarta. "Yet by our heedless actions we are eroding this biological capital at an alarming rate." TIME's Andrea Dorfman points out that the study is a result of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the pact signed by 160 countries at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. "This new report represents an unprecedented number of scientists," says Dorfman, "The problem with biodiversity studies in the past is that they used too small a sample to yield significant results, or studied a specific ecosystem and then make grandiose claims for the data. If this...
...never too early to start booking rooms for the Olympics, so here are the 10 cities on the IOC's short list for the Summer Olympics in 2004: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Stockholm, Rome, Seville, Istanbul, Cape Town, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) and a yet-to-be-determined city in France...
Last April brought representatives from 130 countries to Berlin for 11 days. They made exactly one decision: to spend two more years negotiating on how to meet the standards set by the 1992 Rio Earth Summit for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. In Mexico 18 different U.N. agencies are supposed to be running programs to help solve some of the country's worst problems, such as environmental pollution and drug smuggling. But Mexican officials working on the same troubles are hard put to cite anything significant that the U.N. agencies have done to help...