Brazil

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President Obama's clumsy, smirky staff is sinking him -- and resurrecting a deflated GOP! Plus: Lay off Rush! And a Brazilian diva, up close and electric
  • Can new growth save the Amazon rainforest?

    Vegetation is reclaiming agricultural land and might save us from consequences of deforestation
  • A Brazilian Linux let-down

    The government subsidizes free software. But does anyone use it?
  • City kids

    Brazilian TV series "City of Men" explores the hardships of growing up among guns and gangsters in Rio's slums.
  • Girl abused in all-male jail

    Now on trial: Brazil's criminal justice system
  • Soap opera social engineering

    In Brazil, the data suggests that prime-time programming contributed to a national decline in fertility rates.
  • Big Pharma and the bullies

    After getting kicked around by the likes of Thailand and Brazil, the pharmaceutical industry suddenly realizes, hey, maybe there's money to be made by lowering prices.
  • Brazil's Orkut rule

    Whenever possible, use digital media to subvert the cultural canon and defy hierarchy
  • Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut

    Like zombies in search of fresh brains, social networks will rise from the grave when you least expect them. Especially if Brazilian hackers are involved
  • Brazilian ethanol: Too cheap to meter

    Brazil's president, Lula, appears on Charlie Rose, and suggests rich countries should treat biofuel imports as "reparations"
  • The cane cutters of ethanol

    Are the machete-wielding workers who slave in Brazil's sugar cane fields a liability for multinational agribusinesses?
  • Where has all the wheat gone?

    Global inventories of the grain are plunging and prices are surging. Is the biofuel boogeyman to blame?
  • Food versus fools

    The price of corn is on the rise, the price of sugar is in decline. So which one makes more sense as a biofuel feedstock?
  • What does a girl have to do to get excommunicated?

    Catholic officials keep threatening to excommunicate pro-choice politicians and activists like me. I think they're bluffing, and canon law is on my side.
  • From the Iowa plains to the Amazon jungle

    Which is the bigger threat to Brazil's rain forest: Locally grown sugar cane, or American corn?
  • Hurricane ethanol

    Who's the culprit in Japan's fruit juice price hikes? Florida weather or Brazilian sugar cane?
  • How Portugal screwed up Brazil

    First there was a sugar rush. Then a gold rush. Both left unsightly scars on the history of Brazil. What will the ethanol rush bequeath?
  • The biofuel scramble for Brazil

    If the foreign investment in the Brazilian ethanol industry constitutes a new "Great Game," who might end up the loser? A lesson from Afghanistan.
  • Jorge W. Bush visits "the neighborhood"

    Talking that "free trade" talk, the president heads to Brazil to pump up ethanol. Why would anyone doubt his sincerity?
  • Daniel Ortega's new best friend: Hugo Chavez

    Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
  • How to make a global trade in biofuels work

    Easy. Just get everyone in the world to play by an entirely new set of rules.
  • Destination: Brazil

    After Carnival, soccer and samba, go deeper into this South American nation via its seductive novels and gritty true-life stories.
  • I'm a Brazilian girl -- why do I fall for French and Italian guys?

    I'd been hurt before -- but then it happened: An amazing married Italian!
  • Ask the pilot

    Two U.S. pilots involved in a collision over the Amazon jungle were held in Brazil for more than two months. Should pilots involved in aviation accidents be treated like criminals?
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