Brazil Makes Last-Minute Rush to Be Ready for World Cup

With just over a week to go before the World Cup kicks off, Brazil is racing to get its stadiums, airports, roads and phone networks ready before hundreds of thousands of soccer fans descend on the country.   Airports in nearly all 12 host cities are swarmed with construction workers laying parking lots, installing check-in counters and kicking up clouds of dust with long-delayed expansions.   Workers at several stadiums are still struggling to set up cell phone networks that...

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