But that will change as the project moves from conception to delivery.

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Besides Brazilian students, the university, whose conception project was built in cooperation with UNESCO in Brazil office, opened 150 positions for students from Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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Five years after conception the project is still in its pilot stage.

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The time of this project coincided with a large Marian trend: in 1661, Pope Alexander VII declared the Immaculate Conception (though it didn't become a dogma of the church until 1854).

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The project was conceived, designed, constructed, and opened in four years, whereas the Heathrow terminal, from conception to completion, took twenty years. (That building, by Richard Rogers, is a somewhat compromised version of his original design far better than the rest of Heathrow, but much less interesting than Rogers meant it to be.) These widely divergent timetables are not a matter of Chinese efficiency versus British dallying: the British, like the Americans, pay the price of democracy.

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