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...severe, yet many cannot afford the equipment that would enable them to keep track of their blood sugar. Often they are so badly informed about their disease that they skrimp on the oral medication or insulin shots they need to keep blood glucose in the normal range. In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, a large health-promotion project, A Su Salud, has begun to spread the word about diabetes on Spanish-language radio and television...
There are encouraging signs, however, that the old ways of Brazilians are changing. Women's groups in Rio de Janeiro are mobilizing to bring public pressure on the justice system. Earlier this year, a Belo Horizonte man was sentenced to 19 years for killing his wife. "Things have got better," says Sandra Lima of the Confederation of Brazilian Women, "but they are still far from ideal...
...through America's porous Southwestern border: so-called killer bees. Last week the Department of Agriculture spotted the first incursion on U.S. soil of Africanized bees, originally imported to Brazil from Africa in 1957 for a breeding experiment. All the bees were trapped east of Hidalgo in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and promptly destroyed...
...Mello was worried that the scandal might damage his administration's credibility. His sensitivity is understandable: three weeks ago, a woman from the state of Alagoas claimed that the President was the father of her 10-year-old son. Last month a candidate for governor in the state of Rio Grande do Sul was hurt by allegations from his former wife that he had deserted their three children. And in the state of Amazonas, gubernatorial candidate Gilberto Mestrinho was attacked by his opponents for having nine children by four women. But the snickering slogan "Vote for Mestrinho -- he could...
...thing few dare to call him is Fernando; the President dislikes being addressed by his first name. Collor, says his chief of staff, Marcos Coimbra, "is secure, responsible, determined." Others charge that Collor is too autocratic. Says Herbert de Souza, who runs a left-wing think , tank in Rio: "He's like a doctor who tells us he's going to cause us the maximum pain and suffering, but it's for our own good...