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Already 165,000 have developed the affliction, and more than 1,200 have died. By one estimate, as many as 6 million people may fall ill over the next three years, with the death toll reaching 40,000. Two weeks ago, Brazil reported its first cases, in the Amazonian jungle on the border with Peru. In the U.S., health officials revealed last week that four people in the New York ( City area became ill after eating improperly cooked crabmeat that had been illegally brought into the country from Ecuador. (Excellent public sanitation should, however, prevent a U.S. outbreak.) "We just...
Even so, the epidemic may not be as devastating in other countries as it has been in Peru. "The country where cholera strikes first is always hit the hardest," claims Dr. Baldur Schubert, head of Brazil's National Commission for the Prevention of Cholera. "We've had time to prepare for the disease." The Brazilian government has distributed 450,000 illustrated pamphlets on the Amazon border to teach people how to combat cholera by boiling drinking water and washing one's hands after defecating. Authorities have also allocated $6 million to build public toilets in the area. In Colombia...
Besides being involved in the media for many years, Vessenski has put his knowledge of South America to use through writing six books and six screenplays on issues related to that region. Those works, which include documentaries on Chile and Brazil, explore topics such as the problems of South American cities and the perspectives and aspirations of South American youth...
Yelling. Sulking. Wall punching. Dangerous objects flying through the air. And, of course, one of the stars threatening to take a few days off in Brazil. Seems she had an urgent need to consult with her psychic. The near unmaking of The Marrying Man and the on-set tiffing between its lead actors, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, made a much read and sermonized-over feature in Premiere magazine. See what happens, said Hollywood, when you give stars too much power as well as too much money...
...easy to go to Brazil and sign a biodiversity convention," Feldmann said. "But you will not be able to implement this unless you establish a new structure and society." Feldmann said that while the U.N. conference will not resolve all the threats to the environment, it may establish "new conceptions [and] new structures," for the future...