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Across the world, Brazil's democratization has also fueled an indigenous growth in local Green groups, 900 of which have sprung up in the past ten years. But perhaps the best example of the movement's infectious power is that it has even touched Japan, where the intimacy between business and government has kept environmentalism from penetrating far into the nation's legal and political fabric. Even there, bands of environmentalists have formed to protest Japan's frenetic construction of golf courses, successfully stopping the destruction of woodlands in about 20 cases...
Groups have sprung up around the world to evangelize the Fatima message. Members of these groups say that prayers--and the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima--have caused the changes in Eastern Europe...
...years away, apartheid has acquired a more presentable face. The humiliating restrictions of petty apartheid have largely faded away. A sizable black middle class has sprung up, bringing with it consumer power that has not escaped the notice of white merchants. "Buppies" live in handsome Soweto neighborhoods like Diepkloof and drive their BMWs to work each day. Black businessmen make deals over lunch at trendy restaurants while being served by scurrying white waiters. Compared with blacks on the rest of the continent, many in South Africa live well. More, of course...
...concluded that single-malt fanciers are younger, more affluent and better educated than drinkers of blended Scotch. "People may be drinking less," says Peter Smith, the center's director, "but they are savoring more." Connoisseurs may eventually have more malts to savor. Several "silent" (mothballed) distilleries have lately sprung back to life. And next month Schenley < Affiliated Brands, an American subsidiary of Britain's United Distillers (Guinness), takes over U.S. distribution of six U.D.(G.)-owned malts. As a quick guide to the range of malt tastes, Schenley will sell them not just in 750-ml bottles but also...
...government. The National Salvation Front gathered at the studio to announce that the revolution had triumphed -- and set about trying to steer it into calmer channels. The Front ordered all those who had seized or been issued firearms to turn them in and instructed revolutionary committees that had sprung up around the country to be "immediately subordinated...