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Posted AT 11:45 AM EDT on 20/01/07

On the left, notice the poverty

SHAWN BLORE

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

RIO DE JANEIRO — The tour starts where the asphalt stops, at the top of a steep alley that begins just a block from the beach and wends its way up behind the pricey high-rise towers to a starkly segregating boundary. On one side lies the legal part of the city, served by cab drivers and postal carriers and ambulances; on the other side lies the no man's land of irregular slum housing known in Rio de Janeiro as a favela.

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