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That lifestyle can't last--at least not without some adaptation. The dated caravan is running up against the changes that come with the modernity overtaking Brazil. Huge American Caterpillar bulldozers are ripping through the jungle, and the "fishbones" of TV antennas poke up everywhere. In one hamlet, Gypsy and Salome explore the apparently deserted town, wondering whether to present their show, only to find the entire community sitting in churchlike attendance on a single, tiny TV screen glowing with disco action from the dance floor of "American Bandstand." Searching for towns where progress has not yet stolen their audience...
Anyone with heavy debts benefits from inflation, which is why Americans no longer heed the warning in Hamlet: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." People take out loans in the expectation that they will be able to pay them off later with cheaper dollars. And in recent years they have been right. Borrowers can now repay their debts with dollars worth just 63? in 1975 terms. That view is an important factor behind the sharp increase in consumer installment debt, which since 1975 had gone from $172.4 billion to $305.5 billion by the end Of last October...
Poland's numbingly familiar queues were longer than usual last week as people tried to buy scarce delicacies for the year-end holidays. In every city, town and hamlet, citizens stood in line in hopes of getting a carp for the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. When available, the fish cost $1.22 a pound. In downtown Warsaw, as a Dickensian gloom settled over the capital one evening, more than 70 people queued up before a seedy, barren-looking candy store in hopes of buying chocolates for their children. The shortages are worse than usual these days, because of hoarding...
...places where they settle. In Sandpoint, Idaho, a favorite refuge of disillusioned Californians, boutiques and craft shops flourish and stores sell wooden tubs for outdoor bathing. Newcomers may even revive an entire town in their image. Twenty-five miles south of Santa Fe, in the Ortiz Mountains, lies the hamlet of Madrid (pop. 250). Until 1955, the community scraped together a living from nearby coal mines, but when the coal business fizzled, Madrid faded away. In 1975 an enterprising group of outsiders began buying the hillsides and the abandoned, ramshackle miners' cottages. Today the sound of power saws...
...young police captain led a convoy of buses into the mountainside hamlet of Calitri, 65 miles east of Naples, one day last week. The captain's mission: to persuade the 3,400 villagers of Calitri, camped beside the wreckage of their homes after the country's most devastating earthquake in 65 years, to accept temporary shelter elsewhere. His convoy was part of Plan S, a vast effort by the Italian government to evacuate the 234,000 people left homeless by the quake...