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Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts

Dec 27, 2009

Brazil Aims to Prevent Land Grabs in Amazon

Image via Wikipedia By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO VILA DOS CRENTES, Brazil — Raimundo Teixeira de Souza came to this sweltering Amazon ...

Sep 20, 2009

Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web? - NYTimes.com

By BRAD STONE Phoenix THE hum of 102 rooftop air conditioners and a chorus of beeping electric carts provide the acoustic back...

Aug 9, 2009

Amazon.com, Digital Publishing and Jeff Bezos

By Lev Grossman and Andrea Sachs This story has been updated since publication in TIME magazine. Cayla Kluver was 14 when she wrote her ...

Jul 25, 2009

As Trees Fall in the Amazon, Fears That Tribes Won’t Be Heard

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL XINGU NATIONAL PARK, Brazil — As the naked, painted young men of the Kamayurá tribe prepare for the rit...

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