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Illiterate until age 18, he eked out a living as a rubber tapper, collecting latex from the Amazon's trees. Yet Chico Mendes became Brazil's environmental conscience. He not only organized his fellow tappers into a rural workers' union but also formed them into human barriers whenever chain saws and bulldozers threatened the rain forest that was their livelihood. Mendes' Gandhi-like tactics brought him global acclaim--and enemies. A week after celebrating his 44th birthday with his children and his wife Ilza, shown with his picture, he was cut down by ranchers' bullets...
...pins and needles. "My fiance knows to steer clear. I tend to be short-tempered, more critical, and I go around the house looking for problems. I live out in the country, so right after I get the shot I get out the weed whacker and the chain saw, and I just go crazy...
...owner of a chain of supercenters in Michigan would hardly seem a match for Henry Kissinger in a debate over the Vietnam War, but at the 1995 Gerald R. Ford Foundation board meeting, the former Secretary of State indeed lost a heated argument on the subject to one Fred Meijer of Grand Rapids. At issue was an 18-step metal ladder, utterly unremarkable except that in April 1975 thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, fleeing capture by the invading North Vietnamese for freedom in the U.S., had clambered up its sturdy steps onto the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon...
...sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District, where nearly half of the 711,000 students speak limited English, Hobart, a squat stucco campus surrounded by a chain-link fence, serves 2,200 children. More than three-quarters are Latino, nearly a fifth are Korean--and 92% are poor enough to qualify for free lunch. A third of Hobart's teachers lack certification. A few weeks ago, the school was locked down at midday when a taxi driver was shot nearby...
...this is also a comedy of murders. There are chain saws and nail guns, and a severed head cellophaned in the fridge. But the carnage, like the sex scenes, is shot so pristinely that it becomes a nouvelle-cuisine feast; this is a splatter film Martha Stewart could love. The acting is similarly fastidious. A trio of beguiling actresses (Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Sevigny, Samantha Mathis) sing backup as Patrick's favorite victims...