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Such efforts will be of little comfort to the families of children like Rafael. Until thalidomide is made safe, governments will have no choice but to regulate the drug tightly and publicize its perils...
Bundled in a stark white hospital blanket, Rafael looks like any other month- old baby. But when his mother, Luciene das Dores, unwraps the snug cover, the sight is shocking: Rafael has no arms or legs. "I got very upset and started to cry when I first saw him," says Das Dores, 23, a part-time cleaning woman who lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. "When I saw him with only a head and a torso, I was devastated. I wanted to kill myself." She could not help feeling guilty: unaware that she might hurt her baby, she had taken...
Both before and after this revolution,remarkable teachers shared their passionateenthusiasms with us. In philosophy, Rafael Demos,with his halo of white hair, seemed to beSocrates. The noted psychologist Henry AlexanderMurray spoke more (to my relief) of people than ofrats...
Take the narrator of the opening story, Accountant. Outwardly, as Abba Roth tells us, he is the picture of upwardly mobile success: "We live in San Rafael, California, and I work at Priebe, Emond & Farmer, the San Francisco firm, where I have worked since the last days of the Eisenhower administration. At one time or another we have owned a Shetland pony, dug a swimming pool, leased a summer cottage at Lake Tahoe, and given generously to the Israel General Fund . . ." Inwardly, he is trying to come to grips with an irrational act of petty theft he committed against...
Benitez should have left the book as a jigsaw puzzle of touching, observant portraits of characters with charming names: Candelario Marroquin, the salad-maker who loses his job when he makes a tragic, comically botched Caesar salad, Fulgencio Llanos the photographer, Rafael Beltran the teacher, Cesar Burgos the fisherman. The theme of funny little people with funny little lives and little dreams--Marta Rodriguez, a chambermaid in a hotel, dreams of leaving Mexico for El Paso and working in a house--was strong enough to sustain the story...