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| | Boston.com / Travel / Seeking heaven in the stubborn earth |
 | | Amazonas Brasil, the owner of the house, idled in the gallery, seeming at once impressed and bored with his collection, culled from the people and land of Roraima, a diamond-shaped state covered by savanna in the north and rain forest in the south. |
 | | Amid such battles, a man like Amazonas Brasil, a retired state finance official with a soft belly and fine, white beard, would hardly seem vulnerable. |
 | | Brasil shared his theory: Powerful foreign interests want to lock up Roraima's deposits of gold and tin ore, copper and diamonds, so that they will be available in the future. |
| www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/09/26/seeking_heaven_in_the_stubborn_earth?pg=5 (509 words) |
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