Tag: south america
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July 20, 2006 02:24 AM EDT --
by Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Counterpunch
For decades now the green movement has been tying itself in knots about this part of the world. The forest which covers Amazonia, 60 per cent of the land area . . .
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December 22, 2008 08:49 PM EST --
We've seen toucans being used for advertisements for a certain cereal. I hope to give you some warm weather critters this winter. The toco toucan is the largest . . .
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March 23, 2009 06:16 PM EDT --
Petropolis, Brasil, is a city in the State of Rio de Janeiro where intellectuals, artists and craftsmen have long congregated. It is a young and beautiful city filled with university students . . .
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March 25, 2009 06:04 PM EDT --
During a recent tour of Rio de Janeiro (the city) I visited the Carmen Miranda Museum. It has many of her private possessions (including her shoes!) and her elaborate wardrobe as a gift from her . . .
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October 18, 2009 03:34 PM EDT --
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security: Dwight David Eisenhower : 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969
Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is . . .
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December 23, 2008 11:43 PM EST --
The past twenty years of our South America policy has been a disaster!!!!!We have totally alienated US from South America and Cuba. We need to send a special envoy with the goal of literally getting . . .
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November 21, 2008 05:25 PM EST --
CNN
November 21, 2008
Variations of two deadly superbugs that had previously only been discovered in the United States have surfaced in South America.
The drug-resistant microorganisms . . .
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April 09, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
Paraty ( the “t” is pronounced as a “ch” as in “ParaCHEE”)
Paraty is a UNESCO World heritage site on the . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:04 AM EDT --
What is it with these people coming across the border illegally? They want to enter the United States of America. But why do so without bothering to go through the proper . . .
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August 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
To me, anything presented by John Pilger is Pure Intelligent Truth. He has been doing documenties for decades and it is interesting to watch his natural aging process over the years. He even . . .
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March 05, 2008 06:24 PM EST --
The question here has to do with Truth. Where does the Truth lie?
We all know that Hugo Chavez is a bit of a troublemaker. He loves to give speeches extolling the virtues of leftist idealogy, and the . . .
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October 18, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
Ecotourism is big business, accounting for millions of dollaers a year. Started in the 1970s and 1980s, it was not until the 1990s that the industry really began to flourish. At that time it was more about . . .
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May 13, 2008 09:08 PM EDT --
It is not only tragedies and violence of centuries past which leaves their mark on our modern world, victims of the most recent heinous also attempt to communicate their suffering to us.
In . . .
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February 16, 2009 02:31 AM EST --
Hey, Dubya, while you vegetate over at Crawford's Funny Farm down in America's former continent colony...South America.
Chavez wins, again and lives to play ad infinitum...or until your' . . .
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October 31, 2006 01:07 PM EST --
Black Brazil seeks a better future
By Robert Plummer
BBC News, Sao Paulo
A university named after a 17th-Century rebel slave leader in Brazil is at the forefront of a controversy over the country's . . .
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November 26, 2006 11:19 PM EST --
Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington. . . .
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June 05, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
There has been 24 new species discovered in the southeastern region of South America. The report eludes the responsibility of these new species (which consist of 1 frog, 6 fish, 12 dung beetles and 1 ant . . .
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May 02, 2009 08:03 AM EDT --
The students of our private school are very different from each other, many nationalities and races are represented in the the student body. Some students live in the city of Philadelphia, some . . .
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May 06, 2009 11:35 PM EDT --
In Europe, South America and in Mexico as in a lot of other countries in the world it is perfectly acceptable for females or males to walk hand in hand through the streets or the parks or wherever with . . .
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September 19, 2006 12:40 AM EDT --
One of the best resources that I have found is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Their project of scanning and cataloging records has been a huge blessing for genealogy and family history . . .
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