Word: beene
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The results of the development have been chaotic and in some cases tragic. Machadinho, for instance, was supposed to be a model settlement village with gravel roads, schools and health clinics. But when a surge of migrants traveled down BR-364 to Machadinho in 1985, orderly development became a pell...
Instead of model settlements, the Polonoroeste project has produced impoverished itinerants. Settlers grow rice, corn, coffee and manioc for a few years until the meager soil is exhausted, then move deeper into the forest to clear new land. The farming and burning thus become a perpetual cycle of depredation. Thousands...
The government could also stop some of the more wasteful projects it is currently planning. Part of the problem in the Amazon has been ill-conceived plans for development that destroy forests and drive the country deeper into debt. Most hydroelectric dams, for example, have proved unsuitable in the region...
Larry McAfee was an avid outdoorsman. Growing up in south Georgia, he loved to fish, hunt and play baseball. But all that ended in 1985, when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Since then he has lost his zest for living. McAfee, 33, thus petitioned a...
The McAfee case comes at a time when the right-to-die issue is taking on new urgency in the U.S. Most such cases, unlike McAfee's, involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a...