Sao Paulo wasn't home, but it was certainly in the right direction.

Sao Paulo was not always a city of such extremes.

Sao Paulo accounts for more than 60 percent of the country's car production.

Sao Paulo, in fact, may be the least pretentious of the major international shows.

Last year the police in Sao Paulo killed 106 people.

She moved to Sao Paulo, waiting for the war to end.

Sao Paulo's experience is becoming the rule among sprawling third world cities.

He was arrested while trying to leave for Sao Paulo.

"Sao Paulo is not less important than Chicago," he said.

"Sao Paulo is a great place buzzing with people and traffic.

In Sao Paulo, 1.2 million people are unemployed, a record level.

Because of a legal holiday, the Sao Paulo stock market was closed.

Just over a month later, he was arrested while at work on a building site in Sao Paulo.

Her mother is a marketing research analyst in Sao Paulo.

I saw him do that more than once when he was coaching Sao Paulo.

Her mother owns another hair salon, also in Sao Paulo.

But Sao Paulo, unlike these cities, is not merely huge.

Superlatives come quickly to mind when talking about Sao Paulo.

To someone living in Sao Paulo he would have appeared to be crying for no reason at all.

Sao Paulo won the Brazilian championship for the second year running.

Sao Paulo's stock index, when adjusted for inflation, is at its lowest level since 1968.

Sao Paulo's stock market soared, almost wiping out a 34 percent loss recorded earlier in the week.

The Sao Paulo stock market dropped, and in less than a week has lost nearly a quarter of its value.

Sao Paulo at 34 million, second only to pristine Tokyo.

As a result, laboratories began to spring up in the Sao Paulo area."