Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FUNAI, an agency that was set up to protect the country's vanishing tribes. The attacks mark a desperate new stage in a struggle that began more than 300 years ago, when the Indians first resisted white men who were looking for gold, rubber and slaves in Brazil's vast interior. Just since the turn of this century, more than 96 tribes have disappeared in the face of white expansion; the country's Indian population, which may once have been as high as 4 million, is today less than...
...housing shortages. For the rest of the world, however, population growth is a problem on an entirely different scale. They are growing on average two and a half per cent a year, which works out to twelve times a century, if that kind of growth can keep up. Brazil adds more people to the world each year than Russia and Great Britain put together; Ethiopia, more than France, Italy, West Germany and the Philippines...
...illiterates to read; educated people have fewer children. Embrace women's rights. Spread health care; poor families have so many children partly because they expect a few to die. Brown's most interesting suggestion is that "reform" (he carefully avoids specific proposals here) will bring down fertility levels. Although Brazil's per capita G.N.P. is almost twice as high as Taiwan's, and family size usually shrinks as incomes rise, Brazil has hardly dented its birth rate in the last 20 years; Taiwan has halved its own. The reason, according to Brown: illiteracy, unemployment, and infant mortality...
...young German officer lay in a hospital recuperating from his wounds, he passed the time looking at maps and pondering the remarkable way in which the opposing sides of the Atlantic seemed to fit together. Alfred Wegener was not the first to notice that the bulging coastline of Brazil is a reciprocal of the west coast of Africa. For centuries scientists and cartographers speculated that a single large continent, which came to be called Pangea, had broken up into huge fragments that floated like rafts on the earth's plastic core until they reached their present positions. Such theories...
Here is IPI'S scorecard: In South America, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil all have a muzzled press; Bolivia and Argentina are heading that way; and Chile's newspapers have dwindled from eleven in the days of Allende to five today...