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After going through customs, I turned the corner at the Rio de Janeiro airport, and searched the awaiting crowd for a familiar face. Almost instantly, I spotted both of my grandmothers waiting for me like two elderly women looking for their grandson—as luck would have it, that is what they were doing...
...there were other scientific dilemmas to be solved! Namely: it was June going on July, and Brazilians all over were bundling up, saying it was winter. Impossible! The beaches in Rio were packed, and at times temperatures hovered around 80 degrees...
...longing for those February mornings at Harvard when I stumble out of my room and step into a deliciously crusty puddle of slightly-polluted slush. Instead, I stand atop the Pão de Açucar, a prominence circled by Guanabara Bay, facing the city, and I see Rio soaking in its own mild winter (scoff!) sunset, the waves washing up against the city lights. I kneel on the ground and lift my arms to the sky, weeping and shouting “No!” for a substantial amount of time...
...longer a manufacturing hub or a unique political anomaly in a postimperial age. Can Hong Kong transform itself again, as it did in the 1950s when it became more than a China gateway by turning itself into a manufacturing powerhouse? Or is it destined to become like Rio de Janeiro? Fifty years ago, the Brazilian city was the priciest place on the planet. But it lost its bearings when the bureaucracy moved to Brasilia, the bankers moved to S?o Paulo, and slums and drugs trumped its topography and iconic beaches...
...fellows, other than Sarwar and Schiller, are Claudia Antunes, deputy Rio de Janeiro bureau chief of Folha de S. Paulo; Zippi N. Brand, a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker in Tel-Aviv, Israel; Kim Cloete, a specialist journalist for the South African Broadcasting Corporation; Taghreed El-Khodary, a freelance print and television journalist in Gaza City, Palestine; Yaping Jiang, executive vice president of the People’s Daily Online in Beijing, China; Mary Ann Jolley, a producer/reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota...