2011年2月23日星期三

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Hazardous for health? Roots of Brazilian Blowout (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 01:18 PM PST

**REPLACES SECOND SENTENCE TO CLARIFY** This Feb. 3, 2011 photo shows Adriana Guedes as she has her hair straightened by hair dresser Tania Machado at a salon in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The hair-straightening treatment known as the Brazilian Blowout was nothing short of a revolution for women with curly or hard-to-tame hair. But high levels of formaldehyde used in the original treatment has caused concern, both for stylists and their clients, and in some places, the treatments have been banned, regulated or reformulated.      (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Erlice de Oliveira juggles two kids, a full-time job, a long commute — and really resents the time it takes to tame her curly hair every morning.


Brazilian allegedly has children with daughter (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:09 AM PST

AP - Police in northeastern Brazil say they have arrested a man accused of sexually abusing his daughter for 12 years and fathering her two children.

Special Report: In Africa, can Brazil be the anti-China? (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 05:40 AM PST

Chinese contractors walk past Congolese workers as they prepare to welcome a delegation from China Railways Engineering Company (CREC) in Kinshasa March 29, 2010. REUTERS/Katrina Manson/FilesReuters - In the muggy forest of central Liberia, a gang of workers is inching its way along a railway track, cut long and straight through an otherwise impenetrable mesh of trees and vines. The drone of insects is interrupted by a high-pitched drill and the clang of hammers as workers put the finishing touches to the perfectly aligned steel tracks.


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