Brazil Singles: VERMONT COMMEMORATIVE WILL CARRY NEW RATE
Vermont's statehood bicentennial will be noted by a commemorative stamp to be issued March 1 in Bennington, the city where Vermont ratified the Constitution. The stamp will be multicolored and picture a farmhouse. The stamp will be in the new first-class rate. On May 9, two Love stamps will be issued in Honolulu. They will be in the new first-class rates for 1 ounce and 2 ounces. The stamps picture a heart-shaped Earth.Additional details will be announced later.Club...
Brazil Singles: Davis Cup Results
Andrea Gaudenzi, Italy, def. Jan-Michael Gambill, Colbert, Wash., 6-2, 0-6, 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (7-4). Davide Sanguinetti, Italy, def. Todd Martin, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., 7-6 (7-0), 6-3, 7-6 (10-8). Sweden 2, Spain 0 At Stockholm, Sweden Singles Jonas Bjorkman, Sweden, def. Alex Corretja, Spain, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3. Thomas Johansson, Sweden, def. Carlos Moya, Spain, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (8-6). Qualifying Australia 2, Uzbekistan 0 At Townsville, Australia Singles ...
Brazil Singles: AS TOURISTS STAY AWAY, RIO COMBATS CRIME TO WOO THEM BACK
Four hours after Richard Nash stepped off the plane from New York, a mugger grabbed him by the neck and took his wallet. While the 66-year-old contractor struggled with the mugger's choke hold, another of the three assailants threw Maria Nash, 63, to the pavement near their beach-front hotel. It was the first day of a month-long tour -- their "first and last" visit to Brazil, Nash said.Two days later, a pair of Argentine tourists were picked up by police...
Brazil Singles: Abortions illegal but on the rise,
Rates continue to climb in Catholic Latin countries Poorer women more likely to risk death, prosecution
Monica Maureira remembers how - as the nurses interrogated her and the doctors lectured her - she watched her hands going transparent from the blood loss. She was 16 years old and hemorrhaging after a clandestine abortion in Chile, where abortion is illegal and considered immoral."I remember the nurses telling me that if I didn't give them the name of the doctor who gave me the abortion, they would let me bleed to death," Maureira says.She lived to...
Brazil Singles: Tennis
ATP: Brasil Open At Costa do Sauipe, Brazil Singles First Round Albert Montanes, Spain, d. Mariano Zabaleta (5), Argentina, 6-4, 6-1. Filippo Volandri, Italy, d. Felix Mantilla (6), Spain, 6-2, 6-2. Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo, Spain, d. Harel Levy, Israel, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Gaston Gaudio (7), Argentina, d. Ricardo Mello, Brazil, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles First Round Martin Garcia and Sebastian Prieto (3), Argentina, d. Oscar Hernandez, Spain, and Luis Horna, Peru, 6-4,...