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21 min ago | The Miami Herald

Sorpresas para todos los gustos

Se acabó la foja impecable que tenía Brasil en la Copa Libertadores ya que de un plumazo perdió a cuatro de sus seis equipos, entre ellos al actual campeón Corinthians, y por si faltaban más sorpresas Tijuana y Real Garcilaso siguen con vida en sus debuts en este torneo.

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Fri May 17, 2013

411mania.com

Marshall Zelaznik Reveals Why The UFC Will Visit Smaller Brazilian Cities

Marshall Zelaznik Reveals Why The UFC Will Visit Smaller Brazilian Cities Posted by Joseph Lee on 05.16.2013 Fans will show up... UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik has told MMA Junkie just why the UFC has decided to hold UFC on FX 8 in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, a city so little-known that he had to tell the UFC's Brazilian partners were it was.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Travel, Brazil Travel, Uruguay Travel, South America Travel, Brazil, Uruguay Travel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Travel,

FiveThirtyEight

IHT Rendezvous: This Week in the Global Arts Guide

"Cai Guo-Qiang: Da Vincis do Povo," his latest over-the-top roadshow, is traversing Brazil, with the current stop taking over one of the busiest intersections in Sao Paulo, as well as the interiors two cultural institutions.

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

PR-inside.com

SGS Provides Third-Party Services for UTC Heat Exchangers at REFAP Refinery in Brazil

SGS was awarded a contract to conduct on and off-site inspection and testing on heat exchangers at the Refap refinery in Brazil by UTC, a diversified company providing a broad range of high-tech products and services to the global aerospace and building systems industries, in January 2012.

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KUAD-FM Windsor

How Much Marijuana Do We Smoke in Colorado?

How much weed do we smoke in Colorado? According to the Coloradoan , a recent study revealed that Coloradoans use about 2.2 million ounces or 142,000 pounds of pot each year.

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Newkerala.com

Strong demand in Brazil oil auction

Rio de Janeiro, May 16 : A two-day Brazilian oil and natural gas auction has received strong demand from companies based in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, France, Britain and other countries, with bid prices far exceeding the regulator's expectations.

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Hispanically Speaking

Bus Flips Over Killing 10 in Northeastern Brazil

At least 10 people died and 20 others were injured Wednesday when the bus they were riding in flipped over on a highway in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, the Federal Highway Police reported.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Digital Video Editing

America Movil binds Brazil units closer with Wi-Fi offering

Carlos Slim's America Movil subsidiaries in Brazil announced on Thursday a new combined broadband service, increasing their operational integration ahead of an expected corporate merger in the country.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Carlos Slim Helu,

Medical News Today

Critical Need For Intervention For Brazil's Crack Users

A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world's biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem.

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Voice of America

Brazil Indians occupy cattle ranch in widening land dispute

President of the National Indian Foundation , Marta Maria do Amaral Azevedo , participates in a debate about the situation of indigenous people and issues that affect these communities, in Brasilia, April 18, 2013.

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Live Charts

GeoPark announces strategic entry to Brazil

Latin American oil and gas explorer GeoPark has announced its strategic entry into Brazil with the acquisition of a 10 per cent working interest in the offshore Manati gas field.

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Reuters

Brazil port strike enters 2nd day as Congress debates reform

Stevedores at Brazil's Santos and Rio de Janeiro ports entered the second day of a strike to protest proposed legislation that may open terminals to new private-sector investments.

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Progressive Farmer

Brazil's Sugarcane Harvest Off to Fast Start

Brazil's sugarcane harvest has gotten off to a flying start in a year expected to produce more ethanol, but not necessarily more ethanol exports.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Egyptian judges suspend talks with president

In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi attends a bi-lateral signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil.

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Wed May 15, 2013

The Globe and Mail

Brazilian rancher to get new trial in killing of U.S. nun

In this May 8, 2008 file photo, Vitalmiro Moura, a rancher who was tried and convicted of ordering the 2005 murder of American nun and rainforest defender Dorothy Stang, gestures during an interview in Belem, Brazil.

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CiteULike

Relationship Between Oral Health and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals in Brazil

Objectives To test the hypothesis that clinical oral health conditions are associated with frailty independent of socioeconomic and general health status.

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WTOP-FM Washington

Education woes seen as Achilles' heel of Brazil

There's a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of years' worth of dissections fill a dozen wading pool-sized vats to the brim.

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KESQ-TV Palm Desert

Man killed on soccer journey to Brazil

At 42, Richard Swanson was without work, without kids at home, without a mortgage, but with a lot of time to ponder what matters.

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WAPT-TV Jackson

Man killed on soccer journey to Brazil

At 42, Richard Swanson was without work, without kids at home, without a mortgage, but with a lot of time to ponder what matters.

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The Rio Times

Gun Registrations Increase in Brazil

Gun registration in Brazil has soared over the past eight years, according to research by Globo .

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