Word: campo
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...coming to this part of Par?. Brazil?s ministries of planning and transportation have ignored or forgotten the trauma of 1998 and, without consulting the federal Ministry of Environment, have approved paving the last dirt stretch of BR-163, which runs 1,741 km north and east from Campo Grande in Mato Grosso do Sul to the city of Santar?m in Par?. The 700-km unpaved section runs directly past Tapaj?s National Forest and on through millions of hectares of the most vulnerable parts of the rain forest. Says Nepstad: ?Brazilian scientists call this area the ?corridor of drought...
This past summer I was in Cambridge again, and I discovered more treats I like to eat on my own. The pane romano with Nutella at Campo dei Fiori is a small strip of crusty, chewy Roman bread smoothed with creamy chocolate hazelnut European nectar, Nutella. It was best that I ate it alone--I always ended up with brown smudges around my lips and flakes of bread collected at the bottom of my shirt. I have to be in the right mood for donuts, but the ciambella (sugared donut) at Campo is one exception. In the same family...