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A gas station attendant fill a car's tank with ethanol in Sao Paulo, Saturday, March 3, 2007. Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off a Latin American tour Thursday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of kilometers, providing the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian ca
Biofuel   Brazil   Photos   US   WTO  
 Business Report 
US blocks Brazil's biofuel plans
| Geneva - Brazil hopes to gain better market access for exports of ethanol to the United States and Europe as part of global trade talks but is facing resistance from Washington. | "Ethanol should be... (photo: AP / Victor R. Caivano)
  Bolivian coca growers dry coca leaves in the little village of Flor de Mayo, some 200 km east of Bolivian capital La Paz, Bolivia on Monday, Sept. 19, 2005. The farmers who grow coca leaf on these steep mountain slopes have long felt their livelihood and their Indian identity were threatened by U.S.-backed eradication efforts. Suddenly, they have found hope as one of their own has become the leading presidential contender.
Agriculture   Bolivia   Drugs   Food   Photos  
 NZ Herald 
Food shortage having surprise side effect
| A coca saleswoman shows her wares in Bolivia. Photo / AP | Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their f... (photo: AP / Dado Galdieri)
money  ABC News 
Brazil Boom Breeds New Generation of Millionaires
By Todd Benson | July 23, 2008 | FONT SIZE | SAO PAULO (Reuters) - When Fabio Calderaro was a 23-year-old cadet at Brazil's military academy in 2000, he invested a couple of thousand dollars in the st... (photo: creative commons photo / http://www.lasvegasvegas.com)

Academy   Brazil   Economy   Money   Photos  
Adelie penguins  Lexington Herald-Leader 
Penguins washing up on shore
| NITEROI, Brazil - The discovery of hundreds of young penguins washing up along the Brazilian shoreline over the past month has sparked a scientific mystery over what might have led the birds thousan... (photo: GFDL / Mila Zinkova )
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Free Photos of Penguins The Miami Herald
Why are penguins washing ashore?
NITEROI, Brazil -- About half the rescued penguins died by the time firefighters transported them to the state's main rehabilitation center, the zoo in the southeastern B... (photo: PDPhoto.com)

Brazil   Death   Nature   Photos   Science  
 Susan C Schwab - US - Politics-am1 Irish Times
US offers $2bn subsidy cut at WTO talks
In this section » | Short sellers make a killing from market turbulenceFour-day rally in Irish bank shares comes to a decisive haltOne51 may float all or part of group ov... (photo: PIB / Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.)
Agriculture   Photos   Politics   US   WTO  
McDonald's BigMac ja-3/aaeh The Times
McDonald's makes a breakthrough in France
| The latest gastronomic sensation in France is the burger - and not just any beef patty in a bun. Only the McDo will do. You can ignore anti-globalisation protests, Fren... (photo: Creative Commons / Kici)
Fastfood   France   Mcdonald   Meat   Photos  
Nissan GT-R The Examiner
Nissan celebrates new HQ, 25 years in South
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (Map, News) - Twenty-five years after Nissan Motor Co. became the first foreign automaker in the South, its chief executive dedicated a new $100 million N... (photo: public domain / Hatsukari)
Electric   Nissan   Photos   Tennessee   Vehicles  
Planting - Farming                               International Herald Tribune
U.S. makes offer to reduce limit on farm subsidies
| : The United States offered Tuesday to reduce the limit for farm subsidies and demanded that large emerging economies like Brazil, India and China respond by opening th... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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