Word: braziller
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...five candidates, two women and three men, to be beatified, or declared "blessed," during the Mass, the last step before full sainthood. Like Kateri, the other four all lived more than three centuries ago. They were missionaries who brought the Christian faith to the people of Brazil, Guatemala and Canada. Kateri is the first American Indian as well as the first American layperson to be beatified...
...search for Third World saints has apparently led to timely canonizations: the sanctification of the 22 19th century Ugandan Martyrs was speeded up because Africa needs saints badly. One of the five beatified last week, just in time for John Paul's current visit to Brazil, was José de Anchieta, a 16th century Jesuit known as "the apostle of Brazil...
...Shell preparing to drill around Tierra Del Fuego, where Charles Darwin once sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle, and the Falkland Islands. A promising area offshore of the heavy oil deposits of Lake Maracaibo is not being tapped because both Venezuela and Colombia claim the region. Politics also hinders Brazil's explorations. The government has invited the oil majors in, but it has still restricted foreign exploration within 155 miles of its borders (including areas lying next to Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where oil has already been found) because of national security...
...headbands. Other firms line Borg's pockets for promoting breakfast cereal, bread, soft drinks, leisure shoes and clothes, sunglasses, tanning lotion, key rings, pencils, erasers, posters, calendars, confections (a Borg candy bar is sold in Europe), blue jeans, jewelry, glucose tablets, men's cologne, liquor (in Brazil) and a Bjorn Borg doll. One year he posed with two Swedish sewing machines for a company that wanted to salute "three Swedish champions." This fall a Borg-authored tennis column will begin appearing in British newspapers. Next month, for $125,000 plus royalties, a French picture agency will be permitted...
...shocks in large part because of a hearty surplus fed by a vigorous economy that has become a modern cornucopia. TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz reports: California has the world's ninth largest economy-a gross product of $30 billion, bigger than Australia's, Canada's or Brazil's. Its 22.9 million residents' personal income will increase some 12% this year, compared with 10% for the nation as a whole. And they earn their living from such diverse enterprises, ranging from pistachio nuts to microchips, that the economy seems capable of adapting to almost...