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...PAULO, Brazil: The presidential election is over, and the first-ballot reelection of the IMF's preferred candidate, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, looks sewn up. So where's his reward -- the $30 billion bailout? For one thing, the IMF and the U.S., along with the rest of the G-7 nations, are still working on it. For another, it's supposed to be a secret...
...still runoff gubernatorial elections in which Cardoso needs support," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The news that austerity measures are coming along with the bailout might cost him politically with constituents." But Cardoso is pressed for time. His best chance to get those painful budget cuts through Brazil's Congress is to move fast, while he's dealing with an outgoing group that's less likely to worry about short-term political fallout. That's a presidential problem Bill Clinton would love to have right now -- his Congress looks ready to hit the campaign trail without coughing...
...lived beast (some reach age 70) on her T shirt. And miniature re-creations of the animal (which can grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings low and use unobtrusive lighting," she explains. "That way the turtles don't get disoriented on their...
...means she and her husband Guy Marcovaldi. Together Maria, 40, and Guy, 44, run Brazil's National Sea Turtle Conservation Program. Known less formally as TAMAR (from tartaruga marinha, the Portuguese words for sea turtle), the program protects the five species of marine turtles that trudge out of the Atlantic Ocean to make their nests on Brazil's beaches...
...Marcovaldis, who had studied oceanography together at Brazil's University of Rio Grande, resolved to stop the slaughter. With government funding, they enlisted a growing army of Brazilians to guard the sea turtles and their nests. Today 400 employees at 21 stations patrol 620 miles of coastline...