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...JANEIRO, January 11 - A few things to know about Brazil...
...Something about Brazil No. 1: Don't make the OK symbol with your hands - it's like an upraised middle finger here...
...Something about Brazil No. 2: Beware of directions. Some Brazilians will give you wrong directions rather than owning up to the fact they don't know how to find something in their own country or city...
...JANEIRO, Jan. 10 - The first thing I notice about Brazil is all the green. My plane, American Airlines Flight 973 out of Kennedy Airport, is coming in for a landing in Rio de Janeiro. The landscape below is strikingly hilly and lush and green, a kind of original emerald that makes the color we have in back in the United States seem like it's been through the wash a few too many times, or that we've been viewing the world all these years through a television badly in need of a color adjustment. This is a green...
...American democracy has been unmasked, revealing to the whole world that the government "of the people, by the people and for the people" is sheer baloney. In the next U.S. presidential election, the world community should send observers to make sure the whole process takes place without any irregularities. Brazil should cash in and export thousands of its electronic ballot boxes to teach Uncle Sam how to count votes. MARCILIO AFONSO Recife, Brazil...