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Holman was a prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...
...With the country's health system in ruins and alcohol producers barely regulated, the initiatives are wise, said Dr. Ronaldo Laranjeira, the Sao Paulo doctor who led the U.S.-Brazilian team studying the ban's effects. "It is cheap," Laranjeira said, "and shows that alcohol-related violence can be tackled...
Their caipirinhas are as potent as their soccer stars, and their beer is so beloved that they hold annual competitions to decide which is the coldest, frothiest and tastiest. But while partying is second nature to Brazilians, the mornings after can be rougher than most. Some 17% of all men suffer from alcohol-related problems or dependence, and more than one in ten of all deaths in Brazil are alcohol-related - which is two and a half times the world average, according to the Brazilian Psychiatric Association...
...When the legislation was passed by the City Council in 2002, few people believed it would work. Since Brazilian laws are often not worth the paper they are written on, Diadema tried to safeguard its enforcers from getting corrupted. For starters, when the four patrol cars go out on each night, only the team leader knows what route they will take. The police and inspectors also ride together, making it hard to bribe one without the knowledge or cooperation of the others. When they come across a bar selling alcohol after hours, they are careful to approach with a minimum...
...standstill by traffic jams on Monday afternoon as frightened citizens rushed home. By evening, the city streets were eerily empty as people cowered in their houses. "This was a landmark event for Sao Paulo in particular and for Brazil as a whole," said Sergio Mazina, vice president of the Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences. "Nothing like this has ever happened before...