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JANUARY
2001

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CONTENTS:

06
Christmas:

A piece of coal
for Santa Claus

07
Surgery:

Rocky road to
hilly breasts

08
500 Years:

Indians were
not welcome

08
Marketing:

At Petrobras
X is for global

11
COVER
STORY

Trying to save
the Portuguese Language

18
Politics:

Minimum wage: it sounded
great on paper

20
Canada:

With a green
and yellow touch

24
Media:

Fabricating the news
and other stories

25
Indians:

Postcards! That's all
they are good for

27
Short Story:

"Venha Comigo" by
Calixto José Hakim
In Portuguese

31
Travel:

Parati, more than
a slice of Rio

35
Work:

Teaching English
in Brazil. You can too.

37
Literature:

Brazil's alive in
Cora Coralina's poetry

40
Music:

Marco Pereira,
alchemist of sounds

46
Review:

Rita Lee, still
all together

52
Human Rights:

Torture seems to
never end in Brazil

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