August 1993

CONTENTS:

Cover: We Can do It! Giant Brazil is no lost case (p. 7)

Short story: Artur Azevedo’s The Pills (p. 13)

Short story: Fernando Sabino’s Fishbone (p. 14)

Education: Exemplary schools (p. 15)

Tecnology: Harvesting money (p. 16)

More than 90% of Brazilians mistrust politicians (p. 18)

Frontier: Amazon’s cowboys (p. 19)

Soccer: Ready for the Cup (p. 21)

Food review: Eating at Dee Dee (p. 23)

Politics: Collor TV (p. 24)

Music: Hot, hot Eliana (p. 27)

Books: Márcio Souza writes again (p. 28)

Northbound sound: Brazilian musicians in the US (p. 30)

Tourism: Mato Grosso’s dry & wet riches (p. 32)

DEPARTMENTS:

Rapidinhas (p. 6)

Letters (p. 12)

The Cultural Pulse (p. 34)

Por aí (p. 35)

Los Angeles Calendar (p. 38)

San Francisco Calendar (p. 39)

That’s Brazilian (p. 40)

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