Brazil Dating: SOCCER
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Broke, upset Cameroon goalkeeper quits team
Palo Alto, Calif. - The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon continue their descent into turmoil. Sunday, goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell, the centerpiece of unrest over unpaid bonuses, quit the team, vowing, "I will never play for Cameroon again."Bell was benched in the 1990 World Cup for speaking out against the Cameroon federation's lack of money. There were similar demands for his benching before Friday's game against Brazil since he had once...
Brazil Dating: Migration theories debated
The fastest way to get an argument started in a meeting of archaeologists is to suggest that humans inhabited the Americas long before 11,500 B.P. (before present). This is the age of the fluted stone tools and weapons found at Clovis, N.M., and generally accepted as being made shortly after the first Americans made their way across the Bering Land Bridge created by the last glaciation. There have been voices raised in dissent such as that of Niede Guidon, who claims to have found evidence of...
Brazil Dating: Ancient culture comes to light in rain forest caves
Ancient caves deep in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest harbored a thriving society of people 11,000 years ago who painted astronomical symbols, made finely crafted spear points and collected fruits and nuts from the forest, an international team of archaeologists reports today. The scientists say their discovery challenges the long-held belief that South America was first populated in grasslands by big-game hunters from the North American Clovis culture. Rain forests, it was thought, did not...
Brazil Dating: BRAZIL NOT PUTTING ITS BEST FEET FORWARD
The brilliant Romario is scowling in Rio de Janeiro. Baby-faced Bebeto is electrifying fans in Spain. Dunga, Leonardo, Zinho and Jorginho are helping Japan's young professional league through its growing pains. No, the Brazilian soccer team that will play the United States Thursday (9 p.m. EST) in the semifinals of the Gold Cup tournament at the Coliseum bears no resemblance to the squad that won the World Cup title a few miles up the Pasadena Freeway at the Rose Bowl 18 months...
Brazil Dating: Obituary
Olga de Souza Dantas Morison, 86, of 22 Rivermead Road, Peterborough, died Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, at Rivermead Retirement Community after a battle with Alzheimer's Disease for five years.Mrs. Morison was born March 30, 1917, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, daughter of the late Maria (Godoy) and Marcos de Souza Dantas. She moved to Peterborough in 1998 and prior to that lived in Amherst and then Lyndeborough for 40 years.She was the wife of John H. Morison of Peterborough, to...