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Brazilian Forces Claim Victory in Gang Haven

 

  RIO DE JANEIRO - In a quick and decisive military operation, Brazilian security forces took control of this city’s most notorious slum on Sunday, celebrating victory over drug gangs after a weeklong battle.

  In the early afternoon, the military police raised the flags of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro atop a building on the highest hill in the Alemão shantytown complex, providing a rare moment of happiness and celebration in a decades-long battle to rid this city’s violent slums of drug gangs.

  An air of calm and relief swept through the neighborhood, as residents opened their windows and began walking the streets. Dozens of children ran from their houses in shorts and bikinis to jump into a swimming pool that used to belong to a gang leader. Residents congregated around televisions in bars and restaurants, cheering for the police as if they were cheering for their favorite soccer teams. “Now the community is ours,” Jovelino Ferreira, a 60-year-old pastor, said, his eyes filling with tears. “This time it will be different. We have to have faith. Many people who didn’t deserve have suffered here.”

http://www.nytimes.com, consulta em 28/11/2010

After Brazilian security forces’ victory,

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Brazilian Forces Claim Victory in Gang Haven

 

  RIO DE JANEIRO - In a quick and decisive military operation, Brazilian security forces took control of this city’s most notorious slum on Sunday, celebrating victory over drug gangs after a weeklong battle.

  In the early afternoon, the military police raised the flags of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro atop a building on the highest hill in the Alemão shantytown complex, providing a rare moment of happiness and celebration in a decades-long battle to rid this city’s violent slums of drug gangs.

  An air of calm and relief swept through the neighborhood, as residents opened their windows and began walking the streets. Dozens of children ran from their houses in shorts and bikinis to jump into a swimming pool that used to belong to a gang leader. Residents congregated around televisions in bars and restaurants, cheering for the police as if they were cheering for their favorite soccer teams. “Now the community is ours,” Jovelino Ferreira, a 60-year-old pastor, said, his eyes filling with tears. “This time it will be different. We have to have faith. Many people who didn’t deserve have suffered here.”

http://www.nytimes.com, consulta em 28/11/2010

According to the text, Brazilian security forces fought against

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Mark Zuckerberg’s 650 Million Friends (and counting)

 

  Back in June 2009, the globe’s potpourri of social-networking sites was extremely diverse: Google’s Orkut dominated India and Brazil; Central and South America preferred Hi5; Maktoob was king in the Arab world. The Vietnamese liked Zing, the Czechs loved Lidé, South Koreans surfed Cyworld. Two years after that, and Facebook has stolen users away from its rivals very fast. It’s completely knocked Hi5 off the map in former strongholds such as Peru, Mexico, and Thailand. After a tense back-and-forth with Orkut in India, Facebook has emerged victorious. And it’s becoming more popular in Armenia, Georgia, and the Netherlands, where local providers are making a desperate last stand.

  There are some glaring exceptions to Facebook’s colonization kick. Russians continue to use Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, with Facebook a distant fourth in the rankings. China remains highly committed to domestic sites such as Qzone and Renren. But for the rest of us, we’re living in Zuckerberg’s world.

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How many different social-networking sites are mentioned in the text ?

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Mark Zuckerberg’s 650 Million Friends (and counting)

 

  Back in June 2009, the globe’s potpourri of social-networking sites was extremely diverse: Google’s Orkut dominated India and Brazil; Central and South America preferred Hi5; Maktoob was king in the Arab world. The Vietnamese liked Zing, the Czechs loved Lidé, South Koreans surfed Cyworld. Two years after that, and Facebook has stolen users away from its rivals very fast. It’s completely knocked Hi5 off the map in former strongholds such as Peru, Mexico, and Thailand. After a tense back-and-forth with Orkut in India, Facebook has emerged victorious. And it’s becoming more popular in Armenia, Georgia, and the Netherlands, where local providers are making a desperate last stand.

  There are some glaring exceptions to Facebook’s colonization kick. Russians continue to use Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, with Facebook a distant fourth in the rankings. China remains highly committed to domestic sites such as Qzone and Renren. But for the rest of us, we’re living in Zuckerberg’s world.

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According to the text, Facebook’s boom on the Internet was in

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Ancient towns in Amazon forest

 

  The dense forests of the western Amazon basin hide extensive archaeological evidence of ancient urban settlements. Anthropologists from Brazil and the US reported in the journal Science that the Amazonian settlements, now obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough to be considered “urban”.

  The scale of the settlements means that what many scientists    09    virgin tropical forests are in fact heavily influenced by human activity. They   10    inspire future solutions for supporting the indigenous population of the Amazon.

  The   11    settlements date from about 1250 to 1650, when European colonists and the diseases they brought killed most of the inhabitants.   12    consist of networks of walled towns and smaller villages, each organised around a central plaza.

(www.ft.com. Adaptado.)

 

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Ancient towns in Amazon forest

 

  The dense forests of the western Amazon basin hide extensive archaeological evidence of ancient urban settlements. Anthropologists from Brazil and the US reported in the journal Science that the Amazonian settlements, now obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough to be considered “urban”.

  The scale of the settlements means that what many scientists    09    virgin tropical forests are in fact heavily influenced by human activity. They   10    inspire future solutions for supporting the indigenous population of the Amazon.

  The   11    settlements date from about 1250 to 1650, when European colonists and the diseases they brought killed most of the inhabitants.   12    consist of networks of walled towns and smaller villages, each organised around a central plaza.

(www.ft.com. Adaptado.)

 

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