Awaiting Internet Access, Remote Brazilian Tribes Debate Its Promise, Peril
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SANGRADOURO INDIAN RESERVE, Brazil -- When the sun sinks behind the palm and mango trees, candlelight flickers throughout a tiny village of thatched huts where about 100 Xavante Indians live.
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The governmentâs inability to manage a reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy limbo.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela  - It was exactly what Brazilian fans, frustrated by their team's emphasis on efficiency and winning at all costs, had been longing to hear from their national team coach.
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Discovery of a lone survivor of an unknown Indian tribe in Brazil set off accusations of murder and a struggle over ownership of one of the world's last great wilderness areas.
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Nationalist fervor and economic promise spur Brazilians to vote their Redeemer into contention as a new Wonder of the World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection yesterday in a region known for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers, and environmentalists.
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CAETES, Brazil  - A woman emerges from the thick  scrub with a bundle of firewood on her back and walks down a  dirt path to her small farm in Caetes, a poor and remote  district in northeast Brazil.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rubber tappers, fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
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Weblogs from dangerous regions of Africa, Borneo, and beyond are allowing isolated rangers and other conservationists unprecedented lifelines to each other and the outside world.
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Land rights at stake as the rush to industrialise leaves tribal people and 'untouchables' far behind.
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"Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR ELDORADO DO JUMA, Brazil - It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet.
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The Southern Ute tribeâs reservation in Colorado sits on a rich deposit of methane gas, which has allowed it to become an energy powerhouse. Yet some are wary of the tribeâs newfound clout.
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Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status.
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By Terry Wade SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The gap between rich and poorin Brazil is huge but when it comes to housing, they often liveside-by-side.