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Romance didn’t blossom due to McCain’s short attention spans

Romance didn’t blossom due to McCain’s short attention spans Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, a former Brazilian beauty queen and dancer is making headlines across Brazil after being revealed as the alleged lover of U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain 51 years ago. Maria says she is the woman McCain fondly described, though never named, in his [...]

Nouveau Riche Brazil Hasn’t Learned How to Spread the Wealth

As Brazil’s economy continues to improve, social programs are receiving increased funding and visibility from the government. In particular, many of the region-specific projects of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) aim to improve the country’s infrastructure as Brazil’s overall economic growth further benefits the country, including earning a coveted high [...]

Brazil’s health minister defends women’s abortion right

Jose Gomes Temporao, Brazil’s Health Minister defended in a Supreme Federal Court hearing women’s right to abortion in case the fetus is diagnosed as anencephalia, Brazil local media reported on thursday. Temporao said that Brazil’s public hospitals are fully capable of diagnosing fetus’s anencephalia, and the Brazilian law stipulates that a person without brain activity [...]