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...keep finding new species of beetles or earthworms. What's more surprising is that they're still finding new kinds of monkeys, some of man's closest living relatives. It happened again last week with the announcement that two species of monkeys have been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon...
...Porto Alegre. Once a salesman for a German chemical company, Lutzenberger changed jobs after visiting an apple orchard that had been sprayed with his company's chemicals. As Brazil's Secretary of the Environment, Lutzenberger pushed for punitive measures for industrial polluters and helped create an oasis in the Amazon for the Yanomami Indians...
...Brazil has met the venerable fighting style of Japan--and the result is a burgeoning martial-arts craze in the U.S. Academies that teach Brazilian jiujitsu, rare a few years ago, now number more than 250 nationwide. Renzo and Royler Gracie's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Theory and Technique is Amazon's No. 1 martial-arts book. And as with any true trend, celebrities are getting in on the act: Nicolas Cage and Ed O'Neill (Married ... With Children's Al Bundy) are among its newest converts...
...Superman is a hero who dresses up as one of us, Spider-Man is one of us, dressed up as a hero. Says Jeff Ayers, manager of New York City's Forbidden Planet comics store: "Batman's a millionaire, Superman's an alien, and Wonder Woman's an Amazon goddess. Most superheroes are foreign to us, but Spider-Man is normal and flawed...
...named a living treasure by Australia's National Trust. DIED. JOSE LUTZENBERGER, 75, former secretary of the environment and leading voice of Brazil's Green movement; in Porto Alegre. His work put an end to the government's ?nuclear program and helped ?secure 93,240 sq km of Amazon rainforest as a sanctuary for the Yanomami Indians. In 1988 Lutzenberger was given the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel...