Word: brazilianizing
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...stray pieces of evidence seemed to support the Bosserts' story. Brazilian police did indeed record a drowning at Bertioga on the day in question, and a few months later the Paraguayan government, which had granted Mengele citizenship in 1959, inexplicably canceled it. Also, the exhumed body did not have its arms crossed, as is usual in Brazil, but was placed with the arms extended by the side. In the letters found in Gunzburg, Mengele had stipulated that he be buried in such a position. And last month an elderly farmer in eastern Paraguay told a film crew from...
Late last week Brazilian police unveiled more evidence, in the form of a deposition from a Hungarian-born woman who has lived in Brazil since 1948, to support the Bosserts' account. Gitta Stammer, 65, who with her husband Geza owned a small farm in southern Sao Paulo state, claimed that Mengele had lived with the couple for 13 years. According to her statement, in 1961 the Stammers were introduced by Wolfgang Gerhard to a man who called himself Peter Hochbichlet and who said he was Swiss. They gave him a job helping to administer their farm, and the man moved...
...cold to Asian walking catfish to South ; American water hyacinths, southern Florida has suffered through many invasions by persistent foreigners threatening to displace native flora and fauna. The vulnerable peninsula, devasted last month by wide-ranging brush fires, continues to be under attack, this time by alien trees: the Brazilian pepper and the Australian pine and Melaleuca, all amazingly prolific and fast spreading. Laments Julia Morton, a University of Miami botanist: "These trees are entirely too healthy. They don't have natural enemies here...
...even greater menace is the Brazilian pepper, or Schinus terebinthifolius. While visiting Brazil in 1926, Physician and Plant Lover George Stone was attracted by its thick clusters of red berries and brought back seeds for his garden in Punta Gorda, on Florida's southwest Gulf coast. The tree proliferated with the aid of casual gardeners, landscapers and birds (which feasted on the berries and spread seeds across the peninsula...
Unsuspecting Schinus boosters have since learned that the Brazilian pepper is a hardy trespasser, resistant to burning and with a proclivity for overrunning cleared land. It now covers thousands of acres along the Everglades' Atlantic and Gulf coastlines and has begun to establish itself among coast-loving mangroves. This worries Robert Doren, a research-management specialist at the park. "Many game fish and shellfish come in to feed or breed among the roots of the mangroves," he explains. "Without the mangroves, you might see the end of most of the estuarine fishery in south Florida...