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...encroaching on the Amazon. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and the world's biggest exporter or producer of sugar, soy beans, coffee, orange juice, beef and chicken. Thirst for land, produce, and the jobs, development and hard currency they brings are motivating factors behind the bloodshed, says Father Edilberto Senna, an activist priest in the north of Para. "Nothing changes," he says. "Brazil is proud that it was the 12th biggest economy in the world and that it is now the ninth biggest and will soon be the fifth biggest. But who pays for these ambitious goals? Amazonia, the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil's Land-Reform Murders: Dark Side of an Economic Miracle | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

Franchi's creative flair is evident throughout, from the funky furniture (including a sofa inspired by Vladimir Tatlin's famous Monument to the Third International) to the themed rooms. Dedicated to Ayrton Senna, one room has a video of the Formula 1 champion above the bed. A new suite devoted to Picasso is scattered with ephemera from the master's Mougins studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modern Art of Hospitality in Turin | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...upstart is one of this year's favorites. Will Hamilton have the mettle to cope? Sound judges are sure of it. "Every now and again a talent comes along who sets everyone back a bit," says the 1980 world champion, Australian Alan Jones. "We saw this with [Aryton] Senna. We saw it with [Michael] Schumacher. And I honestly think Hamilton is in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Their Metal | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...sure, and has no way of really knowing, whether the Lemba's ancestors left Jerusalem simultaneously with the Ark (assuming, of course, that it left at all). However, he has a theory as to where they might eventually have converged. Lemba myth venerates a city called Senna. In modern-day Yemen, in an area with people genetically linked to the Lemba, Parfitt found a ghost town by that name. It's possible that the Lemba could have migrated there from Jerusalem by a spice route - and from Senna, via a nearby port, they could have launched the long sail down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt to the experience first gained in a small plastic bucket seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Start in Karts | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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