• The indications would seem to be that playing in conditions of extreme heat - as Flamengo do in their home city of Rio de Janeiro - is probably more dangerous.

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  • Petrobras: The Brazilian government control 60 percent of the Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras Oil Company and has a final say in its investment decisions.

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  • The flamboyant Garrincha, who spent the vast majority of his career with Rio de Janeiro-based Botafogo, died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1983 aged 49.

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  • Carlos Ramos or "Carlinhos the Waterfall" - the man from whom Mr Diniz is accused of taking money for favours while head of the Rio de Janeiro state lottery - is thought to be a kingpin of the Rio numbers game.

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  • He is also the founder of Instituto-E, a non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiro promoting sustainable human development through its e-brigaders, groups of young people working for sustainable development, environmental protection and social inclusion.

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  • The musical centers of the Third World--such as Cairo, Bombay, Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, and pre-Castro Havana--have been heterogeneous and cosmopolitan cities that welcomed new ideas and new technologies from outside.

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  • Less than 1% of money for preventive works in a big federal investment plan (called the PAC) found its way to flood-prone Rio de Janeiro state last year.

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  • Then more estimates day debates - first on transport and the economy and then on the Rio Plus Summit on sustainable development - to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June.

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  • Brazilian police backed by troops, helicopters and armoured vehicles have moved into shanty-towns near Rio de Janeiro's international airport.

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  • Here they can find Angra dos Reis, an area consisting of more than 300 islands, just a half-hour outside Rio de Janeiro.

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  • Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first Clinton Global Initiative Latin America is scheduled for December 8-10 in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • Six months before the match Sandro Rosell, who is now the president of Barcelona Football Club, the European champions, became a director of Ailanto, a sports-marketing firm in Rio de Janeiro set up shortly beforehand.

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  • Air France has said that Flight AF 447 sent an automatic signal indicating electrical problems while going through strong turbulence early in its 11-hour flight from Rio de Janeiro to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

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  • As for other important states, in Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul close allies of Mr Cardoso face difficult run-offs against awkward opponents, while Rio de Janeiro's next governor looks likely to be Anthony Garotinho, an unthreatening foe.

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  • It will be held at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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  • Boutique properties like the Soho House were the first to get in on the action, and other hotels followed suit, from Hotel Frasano's Phillipe Starck-designed rooftop pool in Rio de Janeiro to the Joule in Dallas, where part of the pool hangs off the building.

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  • In Rio de Janeiro the vacancy rate for high-end office space is 3.4% (versus 7.2% in Manhattan).

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  • Sixth General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 6-11 September 1997.

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  • In Sao Paulo, many restaurants now offer dog menus and a Rio de Janeiro entrepreneur recently introduced a beef-flavored "Dog Beer" -- non-alcoholic of course.

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  • Isam Mohamed El-Hajj Hassan, known to his fans as Karabino, returns from Japan with two Olympic medals in his sights -- hopefully as early as the Rio De Janeiro games in 2016.

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  • Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 8-11 septembre 1998.

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  • Sitting before this perfectly coiffed blond businesswoman in a sun-lit corner office in her Rio de Janeiro headquarters, it's hard to picture her hacking though bovine femurs with a surgical saw to make ornamental loops for her first bikini bottoms.

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  • This is a ten-year follow-on to a similar conference in Rio de Janeiro that was a big zero.

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  • In the past he's boasted that he had a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren parked inside his Rio de Janeiro mansion's living room.

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  • His form may have waned since Brazil's defeat in the 1998 World Cup final but the 23-year-old from the back streets of Rio de Janeiro told reporters he hoped to be playing for Inter Milan this spring.

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  • Leading international scientists and policy-makers then came together during the Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in July 2012 and put forward a set of recommendation to help establish such co-designed research, technology and policy agendas.

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  • On the top floor of a high-rise overlooking Copacabana Beach, the modest Rio de Janeiro Guesthouse has rooms with antique furnishings and parquet floors.

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  • Imagine catching all the sights during a tour of London on a double-decker bus or exploring the streets of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival.

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  • The Brazil international, who flew overnight from Rio de Janeiro after playing in Sunday's 2-2 draw with England, put pen to paper on his contract on Monday after passing a medical.

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  • Since these are for the most part produced in Rio de Janeiro and feature characters drawn from the upper-middle class, they tend to reflect a world where good-looking white people in expensively casual clothes flit around in a perpetual summer, attended by maids.

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