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...some cultures, it is more or less accepted that "straight" men will nonetheless have sex with other men. The rapid spread of AIDS in Brazil, for example, is attributed to homosexual behavior on the part of ostensibly heterosexual males. In the British upper class, homosexual experience used to be a not uncommon feature of male adolescence. Young Robert Graves went off to World War I pining desperately for his schoolboy lover, but returned and eventually married. And, no, he did not spend his time in the trenches buggering his comrades-in-arms...
Pedra Furada, Brazil...
...plausible places for early human settlement of the Americas, Pedra Furada, located in a region of dramatic sandstone cliffs in the arid outback of northeastern Brazil, is probably the most exciting -- and most disputed. When archaeologist Niede Guidon of the School for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences in Paris first excavated the site in 1978, she found cave paintings, ash-filled hearths and what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each...
...change the system; change the people. That's the message Brazilians sent in a national plebiscite on their form of government. Preliminary tallies showed voters favoring the current presidential system over a parliamentary option by 2 to 1. And republicans roundly defeated those favoring a revival of Brazil's monarchy, 66% to 11%. Most telling, nearly half the eligible voters boycotted the compulsory election or spoiled their ballots. With inflation nearing 30% a month, many Brazilians felt the plebiscite missed the point...
...powered catamaran Commodore Explorer, French adventurer Bruno Peyron and his crew of four sailed triumphantly into France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of whales off Brazil, cracking a hull, and nearly lost two crewmen in a mid-Atlantic gale. Ultimately, Peyron prevailed through wit and guile, not technology. Fogg would have approved...