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         Take away Fio-DentalBy Tom Phillips in Goiania.
  Xingu FluAugust 11, 2009
It's hard to escape talk of swine flu in Brazil at the moment - even in the Xingu National Park, which I visited last week. This is Francisco Txicao, an Ikpeng indian from the state of Mato Grosso, who…
Say it to her face,…July 29, 2009
I'm not sure I've ever had so many emails about one story. The story in question is a piece I wrote, while dressed in the silly blue helment above, for today's Guardian about the growing number of female cops…
Brits abroadJuly 27, 2009
There's always a lot of crime in the pages of Rio's daily newspaper O Dia. But apart from the occasional mugging, it's not common to find a group of Brits at the centre of the dodgy-dealings.
Moustaches against SarneyJuly 24, 2009
This week was the week of the moustache protest. Following another avalanche of allegations against Jose Sarney, the president of Brazil's senate, a group of Sao Paulo marketeers came up with the idea of a blog where irritated voters…
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This week I'm in Goiania, a small city in Brazil's midwest covering the murder of British teenager Cara Burke. Goiania is known for its cattle industry and the city's steak houses are packed to the rafters with chewy beef. So much so that lots of the restaurants here offer a take-away service in fio dental - or dental floss, available at the counter as you pay.
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