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...RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 10 - The first thing I notice about Brazil is all the green. My plane, American Airlines Flight 973 out of Kennedy Airport, is coming in for a landing in Rio de Janeiro. The landscape below is strikingly hilly and lush and green, a kind of original emerald that makes the color we have in back in the United States seem like it's been through the wash a few too many times, or that we've been viewing the world all these years through a television badly in need of a color adjustment. This...
...plane landed and I get out and catch a taxi. The driver quotes an outrageous sum for the ride from the airport to my hotel. Ahhh, I'm feeling at home already. I'm in town to cover the Rock in Rio Festival, a two-weekend-long extravaganza (January 12-14, January 18-21) featuring a wide array of international acts (Beck, Sting, Papa Roach, Dave Matthews Band, Britney Spears) as well as Brazilian acts (Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Carlinhos Brown, Tom Ze, Nacao Zumbi). The organizers have billed it as one of the largest concerts in history, with five...
Durston will travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to teach music and environmental science to children...
...hold again. It is tragic that we've been warned about the destruction of the Amazon forest for so long, but nothing is being done to stop it. There is still time to act on this. In another 10 years, it may be too late. WILLIAM O'DWYER FOGTMAN Rio de Janeiro...
GIGABEATS The next frontier in portable digital music players is space--storage space. You can't squeeze a rock epic like Kiss's Double Platinum into the 32 MB (an hour of music, at best) that is standard on such popular MP3 players as the Rio 600. But the new Nomad Jukebox ($499), due out next week from Creative, has a hotter-than-hell 6 GB of memory. That's enough to keep you rockin' all night...