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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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| Países pobres bloqueiam reforma da ONU |
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Depois de três dias de intensas negociações, os representantes de países pobres junto a ONU votaram pelo arquivamento da proposta de reforma da Organização das Nações Unidas elaborada após o escândalo que envolveu o programa Petróleo por Comida. A decisão provocou divisões profundas na ONU e também poderá provocar uma crise financeira na organização. As reformas elaboradas pelo secretário-geral da ONU, Kofi Annan, pretendiam restaurar a credibilidade da organização abalada por uma série de escândalos.
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Untitled Document
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Economics
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Argentine growth feeds investor optimism |
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Argentina bond risk fell the most in Latin America over the past three months as quickening economic growth and a $12.9 billion debt restructuring boosted confidence in the country’s ability to pay its debt. |
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Identity/Culture
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Keeping an Incan mystery alive |
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Rapaz’s isolation has allowed it to guard an enduring archaeological mystery: a collection of khipus, the cryptic woven knots that may explain how the Incas — in contrast to contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire and China’s Ming dynasty — ruled a vast, administratively complex empire without a written language. |
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Soutbound Travel
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House hunting in ... Colombia |
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The apartment is on the second story of a three-story, walk-up building, constructed of concrete about 40 years ago. The old city is Cartagena's tourist and cultural center; shopping, dining and public transportation are within walking distance. |
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Migration Issues
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Grief across Latam for migrant killings |
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He was warned the journey north would be hard, so Gilmar Morales beefed up on eggs and sausage, bought some ham sandwiches from the bodega across the street, told his mother he loved her and set off with two other relatives on a path well-traveled by young people here in one of Latin America’s poorest countries. |
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Living/People
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Trapped Chilean miners forge refuge |
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Mario Gómez is all too familiar with the hardships of prolonged confinement. While still in his 30s, his family said, he survived as a stowaway on a ship for 11 days, living below deck on little more than bits of chocolate and drops of water collected in a shoe — an ordeal so trying it brought him closer to God. |
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