2010年1月18日星期一

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Doctors to remove 4 more needles from Brazil boy (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:11 PM PST

A TV grab taken on December 15 shows an X-ray of the stomach of a two-year-old boy at the intensive care unit of the Barreiras hospital in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The boy pierced with 31 sewing needles by his black-magic believing stepfather underwent a second operation on Wednesday to remove 14 from his body, according to a hospital spokeswoman.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Doctors will remove four of the five sewing needles remaining in the body of a 2-year-old Brazilian boy, who was stuck by his stepfather in an alleged plot to spite his wife.


Chile, once Latin America's economic model, now overtaken by Brazil (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - For two decades, Chile was the “teacher’s pet” of Latin America, the student who always brought home straight A’s.
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