40 years of Big Mac… and so what?

In 1967, Ray Kroc the owner of the fastfood restaurants McDonald’s, launched the Big Mac. Fourty years later, more than 900 million burgers are sold every year in the world (550 million in the US alone…), which represent no less than $2.7 billion for the american multinational.
To celebrate its 40th birthday, a Big Mac Museum just opened in North Huntingdon Township (Pennsylvania) to relate [...]

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Rio: symbol of Brazil’s violence

This morning, volunteers of the Rio de Paz movement (”River of Peace”) made up a cemetery of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro’s beach. The most famous beach in the world was indeed covered with 3,000 black bin bags filled with sand to protest against violence in the State of Rio de Janeiro, as 3,000 people died there in the first half of 2007.
Antônio [...]

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Sarkozy, or the man who has been told he is fashion!

On 31st July, the acclaimed American magazine Vanity Fair decided to publish a ranking in which Nicolas Sarkozy (yes, the French president!) was to be the most controversial entry.
He was not competing for being the most important man in the world, eventhough that is probably what he thinks since he was able to unblock the European Union through a treaty rather than a [...]

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