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Brazil approves affirmative action bill for universities

Brazil has approved a bill that reserves half the places in the country's prestigious federal universities for state school students.

Teacher Antonia Beleza de Lima (L) gives a class at a public school in the settlement of Tupa, in Xapuri, in the northern Brazilian state of Acra, some 3,100 km from Brasilia on March 17, 2008.

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