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Joint Photographic Experts Group Image  |  1997-01-03  |  71.7 KB  |  616x931  |  24-bit (144,120 colors)
   ocr: Towering Cities Rise in Brazil's Bracing Highlands and Along Its Lush Atlantic Coast Muscles tense as a workman bends reinforcing rods into position under Sio Paulo's morning sun. Construction crews: in the nation's industrial center often toil round the clock Improved techniques in the use of rein- forced concrete enable Brazil to build at high speed. Paced by Sio Paulo, lesser-known communities along the Atlantic coast stack: story on story as they. too, convert into skyscraper cities. Recife, populous port in the Northeast, brackets its several canals with towering buildings to cope with gr ...