Oh, yeah, undiscovered villages do really well after we meet them: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/brazil-co…

Especially the one with lots of that health-giving aspartame in it.

Sure. The point I was making is that Brazilians are already major Facebook addicts. They won't miss Orkut at all! http://en.blog.orkut.com/2014/06/tchau-…

If it gets to 10–0, will Brazilians promise to shut down the government that permitted this ridiculous boondoggle of a cup, bulldozing people out of their homes, and diverting funds away from critical infrastructure and services?

Favela homes have PCs too. In Brazil, even a cardboard box will have a TV and a dish.

It's hard to find a Brazilian home without PC, internet, and friggin' Facebook.

Just a couple of years ago, this is how Brazil would have reacted to Google shutting down Orkut.

the experience has put her and Oliver off KFC for life

"I'm certainly no expert on the topic of vaginas. They really aren't my wheelhouse, so to speak. But I know enough to know that you are not supposed to go in feet first."

I'd probably read it, except NYT. Is there a profile published elsewhere?

& Japan is far from the only country where women are "supposed" to be married with children by 25. It's a worldwide problem.

she's come across fairly grounded and committed to not allowing celebrity, money or notoriety go to Alana's (or June's own) head

She knows how to work a crowd of people far better than most people her age would.

"filter [objective health advice] through your worldview" — at least she's honest.

Yeah, well, good luck with that.

Yeah, the new one is awful, and the badly Photoshopped "views" don't help.

We still keep hearing about Lindsay, so no.

Inattention.

Life imitates Stephen King.

Actual teachers, parents and students hate it and are constantly protesting it, but there is a tremendously powerful and well-resourced silencing machine in operation. The protest is underreported and neutralised in all the time tested ways when there is a plutocratic goal to be achieved.