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...recent years, however, a suburb of Sao Paulo came up with a new approach to help curb the nation's nasty collective hangover. In Diadema, a gritty, industrial city of almost 400,000 people, Mayor Jose de Filippi Junior passed a law in 2002 that forced almost all of the city's 4,800 bars and restaurants to stop selling alcohol between the hours of 11 pm and 6 am. The effect has been stunning. Since the law kicked in, "the number of murders fell by 47.4%," said Regina Miki, the city's social-services chief. "The number of road...
...Filippi believes the strategy has saved more than two hundred lives, but its benefits are also economic. Many of the companies who shied away from investing in a city rated the most violent in the state of Sao Paulo in 2000 now feel they can do business there safely. For 20 consecutive months, Diadema led the state - Brazil's industrial heartland - in the number of jobs created, and it is gaining a reputation as a model of abstinence and urban renewal...
John A. Dooley '97, for example, starts hismornings by reading USA Today on the Internet.Angela W. Pan '97 communicates with friends andfamily in Taiwan by e-mail. David S. Filippi '94even met his first college girlfriend, a studentat the University of New Hampshire, over thenetwork...
Perhaps you might assign him to cover some women's sports, so that he might see and report first-hand that our Radcliffe athletes posses dignity, courage and integrity. David Filippi...
...Filippi is one of just thousands of undergraduates who have registered Harvard accounts which provide access to the Internet. According to University officials, 78 percent of students at the College have accounts, and they use the network to do everything: send e-mail to old friends, turn in problem sets, read the newspaper and even fall in love...