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Brazilians protest Ahmadinejad visit

Hundreds of people have marched along Brazil's famed Ipanema Beach to protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the South American state.

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Related Topix: South America, Brazil, World News,

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Buffalo News

New blackout hits Rio's glitzy beach neighborhoods

By ALAN CLENDENNING Updated: November 24, 2009, 8:52 PM / Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home.

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Related Topix: South America, Brazil, World News,

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Fort Mill Times

Iran prez seeks new legitimacy in visit to Brazil

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seeking a new source of legitimacy while making his first visit to Brazil, a nation that maintains close ties to the U.S., Israel and other countries trying to halt Iran's nuclear push.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil,

Sun Nov 22, 2009

KXMA-TV Dickinson

Hundreds protest Iranian president's Brazil visit

Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo XFD105, XFD101, XFD102, XFD109 BRASILIA, Brazil Hundreds of Brazilians are protesting the impending visit of Iranian's president, citing his calls for Israel's destruction, his government's controversial nuclear activities and his declarations against homosexuals.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil,

Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Georgia Straight

Brazilian bikinis reveal a culture's free spirit

The Ipanema locals are more at ease in skimpy beachwear than foreigners are. Randall Shirley I think that as an Eagle Scout, I should have been taught how to tie dental floss into a bikini bottom.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Gay/Lesbian

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Ceu: Vagarosa CD review

Cool in voice, cool in demeanour, Sao Paulo siren Cu belongs in a great tradition of unflappable Brazilian female singers that goes back beyond Astrid Gilberto and the iconic Girl from Ipanema.

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Related Topix: Brazil, World News,

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Control Engineering

Application close-up: Wireless devices support equipment monitoring

Two companies that depended on operators and clipboards to monitor equipment condition find wireless devices improve performance while minimizing installation cost.

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Related Topix: Brazil, World News

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Brazilian power cut leaves 60 million in the dark

Vehicle and emergency lighting in buildings lining Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro during yesterdaya s blackout.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil,

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Cool Hunting

MoMA Design Store Destination: Brazil

The latest country to get the MoMA Design Store treatment is a land more known for samba and sunshine than for industrial design.

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Related Topix: Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design), World News, Brazil, Argentina

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Scoop

Wellington's first Reel Brazil Film Festival

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 4:58 pm Press Release: Reel Brazil Press Release – for immediate release November 3, 2009 November 26 - 29, 2009 Soundings Theatre Te Papa, Wellington This month Wellington will be filled with the sound of drums, as the first Reel Brazil Film Festival kicks off! Paying special tribute to the Brazilian Carnival and ...

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Related Topix: Samba, Carmen Miranda, World News, Brazil,

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Austin American-Statesman

'Why This World': The girl from Boa Vista

The biography of a Brazilian novelist 'who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.' By Roger Gathman FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Imagine that Sylvia Plath, aside from writing poetry and "The Bell Jar," also penned beauty tips for Cosmopolitan and ghost wrote an advice column under Marilyn Monroe's name for ...

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Texas,

Fri Oct 30, 2009

J.B. Spins

Janeiro in New York: The House of Tom

Tom Jobim and Louis Armstrong belong to an exclusive fraternity of musicians who have had airports renamed in their honor.

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Related Topix: Tom Jobim, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Black Entertainment, Luiz Bonfa, World News, Brazil

Wed Oct 28, 2009

New Times

Bebel Gilberto Embraces and Expands upon her Bossa Nova Bloodlines on New Disc

Brazilian Bebel Gilberto carries the bossa nova torch orginally lit by her father, the legendary Joao Gilberto.

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Related Topix: Latin, Joao Gilberto, World News, Brazil

Mon Oct 19, 2009

The Age

Rio hunts chopper attackers, fearful for Olympic image

Gang shoots down police chopper Brazilian drug traffickers shoot down a police helicopter in northern Rio de Janeiro, killing two officers.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Prison,

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Bay Guardian

Why do they hate America and love Brazil?

According to news reports, staffers at the conservative Weekly Standard cheered when they learned that Rio de Janeiro rather than Chicago had been selected to host the 2016 Olympics.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Rush Limbaugh,

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Penticton Western

Rio boasts amazing beaches and culture

Known as the "Wonderful City," Rio de Janeiro offers attractions that have rendered the city international fame.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil,

Fri Oct 09, 2009

The Austrailian

One for the road

HAVE you heard the one about Diana Krall and Barbra Streisand playing gin rummy? Actually, that isn't a joke, it's a fact, but at some point on Krall's present world tour the story could come with a punchline attached.

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Related Topix: Diana Krall, Jazz, Vocal, Barbra Streisand, Love, Drama Movies, Rosemary Clooney, World News, Brazil

Tue Oct 06, 2009

City Paper

Music Doc: Beyond Ipanema @ AFI Wed, Thurs

As part of their Latin American Film Festival, AFI Theatre in Silver Spring is screening the documentary Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music .

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Related Topix: World News, Brazil, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Oct 04, 2009

WHDH

Olympics: Rio's chance to regain lost luster

Brazil's most iconic city has been losing its luster for decades, and those who live there hope that the 2016 Olympic Games will help it regain lost glory.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Travel, Brazil Travel, Drugs,

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Examiner.com

The Olympics are going to Brazil and so should you: Some places to visit in Rio and beyond

When Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics yesterday, it was a victory for all of South America, which has never hosted the Games.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Travel, Brazil Travel, Uruguay Travel, Brazil, Uruguay Travel,

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