28 p., Provides information on Brazil. Distinctive Brazilian cultural trait illustrated by carnaval; Land area of Brazil; Its ranking in the world's largest population; Brazil's climate; Minerals that can be found in Brazil; Details on Brazil's history.
2 pages, Monsanto's Barton plant, Luling, Louisiana owns a computer that is literally running the ammonia operation. But it also employs plenty of people - in fact, five more than were there before the fantastic instruments took over. They are also there to monitor the equipment. Once in a while something "baffles" the computer and it takes a little investigation to correct the flaw.
Focuses on the illegal entry of Haitians from Bolivia and Peru who traveled from the Caribbean to South America's other side. With Haiti hit by an earthquake on January 2010, Haitians are being exploited physically, financially and sexually in Bolivia and Peru by an illegal underground railroad known as coyotes or "coiotes." Haiti's economy is based on alleged slave labor and natural resources exploitation.
The article focuses on the criticisms made by reviewers on Marika Sherwood's book After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade. Richard Drayton, Imperial History senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge in England, pointed out the book questions the triumphalist narrative of British abolition. Stephen Small of the University of California, Berkeley and University of Lagos, Nigeria's history professor Ayodeji Olukoju were among the other reviewers of the work.
