Word: rios
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...them. They contain an update for the Heaven's Gate site, with personal suicide messages explaining the members' beliefs and reasons for going to the next "level" with their leader Do (Applewhite). TIME and CNN also obtained a two-minute color video shot by Richard Ford, aka Rio, when he discovered the bodies of his fellow cult members last week. Ford recorded the death scene of Applewhite, who lay on a large bed unlike the cots where his followers died. An illustration of an extraterrestrial stood nearby. The video is somewhat more gruesome than the portions of the sheriff...
...with Ti's crew." That craft was to be lurking in the wake of the Hale-Bopp Comet, apparently ready to take willing members along on a passage to bliss. But as with all religions, the site acknowledged, "what happens between now and then is the big question." "Rio," the ex-member who discovered the bodies, said members spoke of leaving their bodies, their "shells," behind for the journey. Yet the thirty-nine seemed determined, if only symbolically, to take it with them. Each, according to police, carried identification, along with some money, in the front pockets of their nearly...
Before coming to CSN, Marques was finance secretary for the city of Rio de Janeiro--a job of Augean proportions. When she arrived in 1993, city coffers held a paltry $5 million. In two years' time, Marques--earning the epithet "the Billion-Dollar Woman"--turned Rio's battered fortunes completely around, cutting wasteful programs, renegotiating service contracts and declaring war on tax dodgers. By the time she left, the city's reserves were pumped up to $1.2 billion...
Marques' fiscal heroics made her a leading candidate to succeed Cesar Maia as Rio mayor in last October's elections, but she chose the steel-company job instead. Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three...
...gone the way of PEOPLE? Gates has become more insufferable than TV talk-show host Larry King. More boring than O.J. Simpson. More insupportable than the Newt Gingrich and the Clinton family scandals and improprieties. Please change the subject or face the desertion of readers like me. CARLOS ARAUJO Rio de Janeiro...