Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a year, the government of President Jose Sarney has been under relentless attack from environmental activists worldwide. They charge that its policies are not only resulting in the wanton destruction of Brazil's forest, its wildlife and its native peoples, but are also endangering the world environment. Scientists say the fires set by ranchers and homesteaders in the Amazon region are spewing into the atmosphere 7% of the carbon dioxide responsible for the global warming process known as the greenhouse effect...
...Brazil and Columbia have sizeable deposits of the stuff, but the largest supplies are in two other countries. One is the U.S.S.R. It doesn't take a foreign policy expert to squirm at the thought of being dependent on the Soviets for our energy supply...
...study in the same issue of the journal described the level of AIDS infection in Brazil. Dr. David D. Ho of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center In Los Angeles, senior author of the study, agreed with Quinn's concern...
Quinn said the relatively large numbers of bisexual men in some Latin countries appears to be hastening the spread of the disease from homosexuals to heterosexuals. One of these is Brazil, where Ho's study found that 28 percent of bisexual men and 23 percent of homosexual men were infected with the AIDS virus...
ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Lovers waltz in midair, a servant (Eric Idle) outruns a speeding bullet and the King of the Moon (Robin Williams) literally loses his head in this wonder-filled fantasy from Terry Gilliam, late of Brazil...