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...heard a big boom, and people were screaming and someone was crying," said Kathryn Nobrega a zoology concentrator who was in the building at the time of the accident. She added that the hall filled with smoke before people could evacuate...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Lab Explosion | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...Zweig shared with most of us who have lived there the belief that Brazil is indeed a "pais do futuro" (land of the future). [He] attributed the lack of race distinction to the organized planning of the early followers of Loyola in the 16th Century. Led by Manoel de Nobrega in 1549, the first six Jesuits in Brazil began to plan the "new state" . . . anticipating the moral equality of all members of the human family. Through miscegenation and education, No brega and those who followed him hoped to create a new nation, if not a new race, homogeneous and thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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