British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture and Identity in Bahia, 1808-1850

British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture and Identity in Bahia, 1808-1850. By Louise H. Guenther. Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, 2004. xi + 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, �20.00. ISBN: 0-954-40703-2.

This brief, interesting, and accessible study offers a microcosmic counterpoint to macroeconomic studies of British informal empire in Latin America. Taking as her focus the minuscule British merchant colony that formed in Bahia after the opening of Brazil's ports in 1808, Louise Guenther offers an "anthropological examination" of the early expatriates and the self-consciously isolated community they created. Guenther argues throughout that …

Zimbabwe reach 205 against Bangladesh

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Elton Chigumbura hit a half century to steady Zimbabwe innings after they had slipped to 94-5, allowing the visitors to post a defendable total.

Al Hasan, a left-arm spinner, trapped lbw opener Vusi Sibanda (15) and middle-order batsman Sean Williams (3) then dismissed Zimbabwe skipper Prosper Utseya (9) to finish …

Storm gives area another wet whack

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While some suburban communities said the new downpour caused afew more roads to be blocked off, some - like Des Plaines - said thenew rain didn't make any difference to the already soggy suburb.

O'Hare Airport, a focal point of the historic rain problem lastweek, was closed to arriving and departing planes for about 1 1/2hours during the height of the storm Sunday …

Police Detail Attack on College Punter

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Mitch Cozad is accused of stabbing rival Rafael Mendoza in his kicking leg Monday night in Evans, a small town adjacent to Greeley and about 50 miles north of Denver.

Cozad of Wheatland, Wyo., was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of second-degree assault. He remained free Thursday on $30,000 bond, and Weld County prosecutors said they have until Sept. 22 to formally charge him.

Mendoza, treated and released from a Greeley hospital, will …

Afghanistan's Karzai declines to say whether he'll seek another term as president

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Trends of Abnormal Birthweight among Full-term Infants in Newfoundland and Labrador

ABSTRACT

Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate whether any observed trends in birthweight are accompanied by changes in maternal socio-demographic characteristics, including age, marital status, and education.

Methods: We conducted a population-based study of term singletons born in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, between 1992 and 2005 (N=66,638). Large-sample significance tests for two population proportions were used to test whether differences in mean birthweight, the proportion of low and high birthweight infants, and differences in maternal socio-demographic characteristics between 1992-95 and 2002-05 were statistically significant. Chi-square …