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...This week, the President visits Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, building the case for Congress to grant him powers to negotiate trade pacts without the shackles of pork-barrel politics: the so-called Fast Track. Where Reagan spooked Americans with tales of toppling dominoes, Clinton may rely on the specter of Mercosur. The trade association combining the booming economies of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is fast emerging as an alternative to U.S.-dominated trade pacts, and has pledged to sign a free trade pact with the European Union...
What keeps Batista going is not fancy equipment but his insatiable desire to find a better way of doing things. He trained in the U.S. and Canada for 12 years, but he discovered on his return to Brazil that he could not count on the state-of-the-art technology he had grown used to. So he had to make do with the available resources. "Established systems don't allow for any creativity," he says. "Here I can ask questions and find new answers. I love challenges." He fills his office walls with inspirational sayings like "He who tries...
...says Dr. Lawrence Kohn, a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, "but we're waiting to see the scientific proof." And lack of proof has certainly been a problem. Because many of Batista's patients do not have phones and come from all areas of Brazil, he has done little to track the long-term effects of his procedure. Surgeons in Brazil were no more eager than most American doctors to accept Batista's claims. "When I first heard of this procedure, I thought he was a crank, one of those mystic doctors who periodically appear...
...expected to survive the weekend. In a moment of reflection, Batista offered a glimpse of what makes him tick: "The big thing for me is that an institution like Johns Hopkins can't do anything for this woman. And here I am, all the way from Brazil, and I have something that may be able to save her." Sadly, the woman was too sick to save. But for millions of others worldwide, Batista's procedure offers hope where before there was none...
Pope John Paul II will travel to Brazil to start a four-day tour designed to return many of the nation's lapsed Catholics back to the fold. The Pope will try to address a 20-year decline in the nation's Catholic population with his usual blend of the spectacular (masses held in soccer stadiums) and the divine (speeches attacking abortion, extolling the virtues of the family and urging people to be more Catholic...