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...Population))," Kennedy notes. "Now it is heading, at the least, toward 7 or 8 billion, perhaps to well over 10 billion." But elsewhere Kennedy has the intellectual honesty to admit that such population projections can be grossly inaccurate, missing such behavioral trends as a sharp drop in the Brazilian birthrate in the 1980s owing to the introduction of cheap birth control...
...ancestry might have been invented to demonstrate the remark of the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado: Mestizaje es grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...
HAVING INSISTED FOR MONTHS THAT THE WORD resign was not in his vocabulary, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello surprised even his few remaining supporters last week when he announced, minutes after his impeachment trial began, that he was stepping down. By resigning, Collor hoped to safeguard his political future, but the Senate barred him from holding office for eight years. Collor called the trial a "summary execution" and the sentence, which he will appeal, a "farce." Citizen Collor still faces criminal charges of corruption that carry jail penalties...
Ironically, the very programs that have made Lerner one of the most popular mayors in Brazilian history threaten Curitiba's future. Says Ashok Khosla, president of the New Delhi-based Society for Development Alternatives: "Each city contains the seeds of its own destruction because the more attractive it becomes, the more it will attract overwhelming numbers of immigrants." Luciano Pizzato, a federal Deputy from Curitiba, notes that during the next 10 years, Brazil's population will grow by 40 million people -- an increase the size of Argentina's population. "You cannot create facilities for a new Argentina in 10 years...
Middle East. 472 Mass Ave. 354-8238. Upstairs: Scatterfield on Friday, Dec. 11. The Drovers on Saturday, Dec. 12. Downstairs: CD Release Party of Chuck with Random House of Soul and Aria on Thursday, Dec. 10. World Saxophone Quartet on Friday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. Brazilian Jazz Mater Ivo Perelman on Saturday...