OCTOBER
2002

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CONTENTS:

Cover Picture by Sonia R. Tryhane

09
COVER
STORY

Rushing to space
against all and all odds

06
Fear:

Drug lords terrorize
Rio's population

08
Tribute:

Haydée Magro wrote
the book on Portuguese

05
Opinion:

Only misery has
been globalized

04
Diplomacy:

Foreign Minister speaks
at UN opening session

61
Election:

Nobel Prize Gary Becker
explains why the middle class
abandoned José Serra

60
Election:

With demise of Mexico,
Brazil of Lula will
lead Latin America

00
Election:

Lula's main rivals now
are the evangelists

02
Election:

Results are in. For Lula
it's so near, yet so far

01
Election:

With Lula, Brazil won't be
a US vassal anymore

15
Election:

Hard choices for
President Lula

03
Election:

Four candidates
but one ideology

16
Election:

Ciro Gomes's
fall from grace

17
Election:

Lula isn't
Lula anymore

18
Election:

Serra's disastrous
mudslinging

22
Economy:

Can Brazil be saved?

25
Economy:

Argentina we are not

26
History:

100 years of Conselheiro,
Canudos and Os Sertões

29
Behavior:

Domestic violence
in Brazil and the U.S.

35
Short Story:

"O Cortiço"
by Aluísio de Azevedo
In Portuguese

37
Tourism:

Tasting Fortaleza,
Natal and Olinda

40
Culture:

Capoeira and the
young gringo

42
Music:

Luciana Souza, a
life dedicated to jazz

54
Impressions:

Under Rio's spell

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