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US Women Take Third in Cup

Overpowers Norway in consolation match

Sep 30, 07 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Well, it’s better than nothing. The US women’s soccer team demolished Norway 4-1 yesterday to take third place in the women’s World Cup. Abby Wambach scored in the 30th and 46th minutes, giving the women a lead they never relinquished. It’s a small consolation after the... More »

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Brazil • Norway • Women's World Cup • US women's soccer

Brazil Stuns
US Women in Cup Semifinal

4-0 defeat is worst ever for overwhelmed American squad

Sep 27, 07 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil thrashed the US, 4-0, in the Women’s World Cup semifinals today in Hangzhou, China, the worst loss in the program's history. The match was “over at halftime,” the Chicago Tribune writes, with the Americans down two goals—and one player, after Shannon Boxx received two yellow... More »

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Brazil • soccer • US • Shannon Boxx • Women's World Cup • semifinals • Marta • Briana Scurry


XO: Buy 1, a Kid Gets 1 Free

XO buyers will be asked to buy 2nd laptop for needy children

Sep 24, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans will be asked to buy XO laptops in pairs—one for themselves and one for a child in a developing nation. Organizers of the "One Laptop Per Child" program hope to distribute laptops to millions of Third World schoolchildren this way. The combined cost of the pair of... More »

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Brazil • MIT • Cambodia • Rwanda • XO • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Third World

Latin Neighbors Mistrust Chavez

'Chavismo' unloved in region, which is making democratic strides

Sep 19, 07 2:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez's regional popularity is largely hot air, a Pew survey shows, concluding that the Venezuelan president is “widely mistrusted.” In large numbers, Latin Americans also agree that “most people are better off in a free market economy”—including 72% of Chavez’s countrymen, Weekly Standard’... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Brazil • Bolivia • Chile • Ecuador • Simon Bolivar • Hugo Chávez

$100 Laptop Price Hits $188

3 million orders,
fourth price increase for One Laptop
Per Child

Sep 15, 07 9:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The famous but increasingly misnamed “$100 laptop” will actually cost $188—the fourth price increase for the innovative device designed for nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child, reports the AP. While still a bargain, the bump could scare off developing governments fixed on the “fanciful $100-per-child figure,”... More »

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Thailand • Brazil • MIT • Libya • Uruguay • price • laptop • One Laptop Per Child

US Soccer Team Keeps up with the Big Boys

American players show flashes of brilliance in 4-2 loss against Brazil

Sep 11, 07 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a lopsided 4-2 score, the American men's soccer team played Brazil hard in an exhibition match at Chicago's Soldier Field. Carlos Bocanegra struck first in the 23rd minute, and Clint Dempsey's opposite-post goal tied the score 2-2 in the 73rd. Brazilian phenom Ronaldinho gave Brazil the go-ahead score two... More »

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Brazil • soccer • Team America • Carlos Bocanegra • Clint Dempsey • Ronaldinho • Oguchi Onyewu • Tim Howard

Beyond Chavez: The Other
Latin America
Is Booming

Brazil and Mexico lead in growth, reform

Aug 18, 07 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the rhetorical drumbeat from Hugo Chavez, not all of Latin America is mired in poverty exacerbated by free-market extremes exported from the US, the Economist writes. Led by giants Brazil and Mexico, much of the region is actually better off now than at any time in 30 years; the... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Mexico • economic growth • economics • Brazil • poverty • Hugo Chávez

Brazil's Defense Minister
Fired Over Air Disaster

More firings expected to fix nation's problem-plagued air traffic system

Jul 26, 07 4:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil's defense minister was ousted yesterday for his failure to prevent the worst air disaster in the nation's history, which claimed 200 lives last week. Waldir Pires was already under fire after a mid-air collision last September killed 154 people. More »

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Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Waldir Pires • Gol Linhas Aereas • TAM Linhas Aereas • Congonhas Airport

Plane in Brazil Crash Had Brake Problems

Demand for answers, heat on absent president grow

Jul 20, 07 6:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Airbus A320 that crashed at the Sao Paulo airport Tuesday was flying with part of its braking equipment disabled, the manufacturer said today, as pressure on the government escalated. Flying without one of the aircraft's two thrust reversers is legal, but the revelation suggests the slick, short runway probably... More »

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airline industry • Brazil • plane crash • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • air disasters • airplane

Officials Demand Sao Paulo Airport Shutdown

Authorities blame airplane crash on poor runway conditions

Jul 19, 07 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the wake of Tuesday's catastrophic plane crash, Brazilian officials are calling for the closure of Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport pending a review of safety conditions, the BBC reports. The Tam Airlines Airbus 320 landing in heavy rain skidded off a wet runway that was resurfaced last month and had... More »

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airline industry • Brazil • plane crash • Sao Paulo • air disasters • aviation • airplane

Brazil Crash Death Toll Nears 200

No survivors expected after plane loses control on landing

Jul 18, 07 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The death toll in last night's plane crash at the Sao Paulo airport is expected to near 200, making it the worst in Brazil's history, officials said today as rescuers continued pulling bodies from the rubble. The Airbus 320 had 186 people onboard, and more died on the ground when... More »

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Brazil • plane crash • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Jet Crashes, Explodes in Brazil

Airbus skids off runway, reviving safety scandal

Jul 17, 07 10:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A plane with up to 178 passengers and crew skidded off a Brazilian runway in heavy rain, careered across a traffic-snarled road, slammed into a gas station and exploded in a huge ball of fire. The accident happened as a Tam Airlines Airbus was landing in Sao Paolo after a... More »

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Brazil • Airbus • TAM • Sao Paolo • Congonhas • accident

Plane With 170 Aboard Crashes in Brazil

Airbus skids off Sao Paulo runway criticized as too short

Jul 17, 07 8:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - "SAO PAULO, Brazil - A plane with as many as 170 people aboard crashed and burst into flames in Sao Paulo on Tuesday after skidding off a runway that has been criticized as being too short in a driving rain, the nation's airport authority said. -- From AP More »

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Brazil • plane crash

Brazil Hot Again at the Copa

Brasileiros stun favorite Argentina 3-0, win South American futbol final

Jul 16, 07 4:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite missing playmakers Kaka and Ronaldinho and scuffling earlier in the tournament, Brazil got hot at the right time to upset old rivals Argentina and win its eighth Copa America, the second in a row. Argentina's freewheeling offense was disrupted by 37 fouls from its calculating, muscular opponent, and Brazil... More »

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Brazil • soccer • Copa America • Argentina

Brazil to Face Argentina in Copa Final

Championship will
be a replay of the
2004 matchup

Jul 12, 07 4:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil out-shot Uruguay 5-4 in penalty kicks this Tuesday, earning itself a fifth Copa America final in six attempts. Argentina shut out Mexico 3-0 last night for the other spot in this year's championship Sunday in Venezuela. The match will be a recapitulation of 2004's final, in which Brazil downed... More »

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Venezuela • Brazil • Chile • Copa America • Argentina • Uruguay

7 New Wonders Wear Crown

Online poll spreads the wealth to South America, Asia

Jul 7, 07 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The largest online poll ever conducted wrapped up yesterday, and today the results became official. The seven wonders of the modern world, which were announced in Portugal, include an Asian engineering triumph and a South American religious monument, but not the Great Pyramid of Giza—the Egyptian government refused to... More »

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Brazil • Italy • Taj Mahal • seven wonders • Chichen Itza • Machu Picchu • Christ the Redeemer • Petra, Jordan • Colosseum • Great Wall of China • statue

Amazon Tribe Broods Over Poached Blood

Brazil Indians livid after discovering DNA samples sold in the US

Jun 20, 07 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Amazon tribe is bilious after scientists took blood samples in exchange for medicine they never got, the Times reports. Doctors collected DNA from the Karitiana Indians in the late '70s and again in 1996, and then sold it to researchers for $85 a pop. But now the once remote... More »

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medicine • genetics • disease • science • Brazil • DNA • blood • doctor • Karitiana

Brazil Rejects Bush Climate  Proposal

US plan not a viable alternative to Kyoto accord, says Lula

Jun 4, 07 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil's president bluntly dismissed the climate-change plan offered by George Bush last week as "voluntarism" in a situation where "multinationalism" is needed. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose fast-developing country is critical to any international deal on emissions cuts, said the proposal for a new international framework was... More »

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climate change • environment • Brazil • G8 summit • biofuel • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • George W. Bush • carbon emissions

Brazil to Subsidize Birth Control

Cheaper pills give poor women same right to family planning, says president

May 29, 07 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just weeks after Pope Benedict XVI decried contraception as a threat to the future of Latin America on his visit to Brazil, Brazil's president announced that the government would subsidize birth control pills at private pharmacies so poor women can have "the same right that the wealthy have to... More »

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contraception • Latin America • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • women • women's rights • Brazil • religion • birth control • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • birth control pill

Burning Forests Heat Globe

Rainforests absorbe CO2, but burning them pumps out 25% of all greenhouse gasses

May 14, 07 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Destruction of rainforests is a bigger source of global warming than all the planes, cars and factories in the world, concludes a study reported today in the Independent. It's not just the loss of forests, which absorb CO2, that's the problem. It's the rampant burning of those forests that actually... More »

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climate change • environment • Indonesia • greenhouse gases • global warming • Brazil • rainforest • deforestation • carbon emissions

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