In January, South America’s largest city officially banned outdoor advertising. Billboards, neon signs, bus-stop ads, even the Goodyear blimp - all were suddenly illegal. Folha de Sao Paulo reporter Vinicius Galvao describes seeing his city as though for the first time.
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TWiV 155: XXII Brazilian National Virology Meeting
Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss Brazilian virology at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil.
http://www.virology.ws/2011/10/30/twiv-155-xxii-brazilian-national-virology-meeting/
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BBC - Podcasts - Documentaries
How Crime Took on the World
Fri, 16 May 08
Duration: 24 mins
Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny travels to Sao Paulo to find out why Brazil is the cyber-crime capital of the world.
Tagged with cybercrime internet crime brazil
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The Friday Podcast: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil
This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.