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...communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
Sylvia Mitraud, a Sao Paulo university student,was among those seduced. The daughter of a Brazilian economic-planning-ministry bureaucrat, she had been brought up to care more about her Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles...
CITY POPULATIONS IN MILLIONS Tokyo 27 Mexico City 17 Sao Paulo 17 New York 16 Bombay 15 Shanghai 14 Buenos Aires 12 Calcutta 12 Los Angeles 12 Seoul...
...long-term effects of his procedure. Surgeons in Brazil were no more eager than most American doctors to accept Batista's claims. "When I first heard of this procedure, I thought he was a crank, one of those mystic doctors who periodically appear in Brazil," says Roberto Franken, a Sao Paulo cardiologist who has only recently accepted Batista's procedure. Critics do not bother Batista, though, because he believes so strongly in what he is doing. "Either I'm crazy or they are wrong," he says. "And I know I'm not crazy...
...medical innovator, Batista is variably described as a madman, a genius--or both. Says Dr. Noedir Stolf, director of the surgical division of the Heart Institute in Sao Paulo: "With his many more ideas for new surgeries, Dr. Batista is likely to keep controversy alive and well in the surgical world for a long time to come...