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...innovation. After all, the prophet is a visionary and given to sudden revelations. In 1978 president Spencer Kimball had one such revelation, and blacks were finally allowed to become priests of the church. It was a practical vision. Proselytizing had been proceeding apace in Latin America, where -- particularly in Brazil -- many new converts had African ancestors. The only groups more successful than the Mormons in Latin America are the Pentecostal and other Evangelical preachers. Kimball's revelation also gave the church another continent to conquer: Africa, which recorded membership of 79,000, a 16% growth since 1990, the highest...
...baby. But when his mother, Luciene das Dores, unwraps the snug cover, the sight is shocking: Rafael has no arms or legs. "I got very upset and started to cry when I first saw him," says Das Dores, 23, a part-time cleaning woman who lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. "When I saw him with only a head and a torso, I was devastated. I wanted to kill myself." She could not help feeling guilty: unaware that she might hurt her baby, she had taken the powerful sedative thalidomide during her pregnancy...
...patients don't know about thalidomide's dark side -- and when those selling and dispensing the drug don't give adequate warning. Although the U.S. has strict rules governing thalidomide's use, controls are much laxer in some other parts of the world. The consequences are now apparent in Brazil, which has at least 46 new instances of birth defects caused by thalidomide. If there are cases in other countries, they haven't received the same publicity, but given the increasing use of the drug, health officials fear that the problem will be widespread...
...million people, many weeping, lined the streets of Sao Paulo. Outside the gates of the local legislature, a chant went up: "O-le, o-le, o-le, o-la! Sen-na, Sen-na!" It was a rhythmic requiem for the hero who lay within, one of Brazil's greatest heroes and among the fastest men on wheels on earth -- Ayrton Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna...
Federation officials insisted that the rule changes had nothing to do with the deaths of Senna and Ratzenberger -- a view supported by some Formula One engineers. But in Brazil the fans were not listening to explanations. Some of those who filed past Senna's coffin carried placards calling the federation ASSASSINOS. Senna's younger brother Leonardo blamed the FIA as well as Formula One team owners, insinuating that they cut back on safety measures to make races more exciting and thus attract more spectators. "In Formula One it seems people only think about money," he said...