Word: brazile
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Instead, she has focused on lavish business trips to New York, Brazil and Australia to drum up commerce and culture. She is proud of bringing international culture like Mexico's Ballet Folklorico to Florida. "You can't believe how hard I work," she told the St. Petersburg Times last month. But a high-ranking state Democratic official, who was on the phone with Harris when the Florida recount was ordered on election night, says he was angry about her apparent foot dragging "until we realized that it was because she really didn't know what to do at that point...
Money talks--a lot louder than any environmentalist can. This was evident in your article about paving a 435-mile road through the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16]. Perhaps it is difficult for Brazil to look past the short-term economic gains of paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit...
This road may provide food and money for Brazil's landless and more funds for the government, but only for a short time. THEODORE VARNS, age 16 Wailuku, Hawaii...
...tragic that we in Brazil have been warned about the destruction but are doing nothing to stop it. Most people I have spoken with feel the same. But I believe your report may change the minds of many Brazilian Congressmen. DAKIR LOURENCO DUARTE Porto Alegre, Brazil...
...roads you described. I can't help noticing the increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state, where it is unlikely that primary growth will ever take hold again. It is tragic that we've been warned about the destruction of the Amazon forest for so long...