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Rio for me was always the place to have fun," says Carlos de Souza, who grew up in the very different city of So Paulo, Brazil's work-oriented business center, where the high-rises stretch as far as the eye can see and the moneyed classes commute by helicopter. For him, the wondrous city of Rio, with its giddy party culture and its pulchritudinous denizens, who dress for their daily lives as if for some beach picnic, always represented escape. "They call it cidade maravilhosa [marvelous city]," he adds of the place that encircles lagoons and is lapped by the ocean, "and it really is one of the most beautiful cities in the world." The dashing de Souza should know. As the ...