APRIL 96

CONTENTS:

8

Cover Story:

What's to be sick in Brazil

16

Politics:

Cardoso back in Stanford

18

Economy:

The banking system's collapse

20

Movies:

Alive and well in the Internet

22

Books:

Brazilians will be reading this

24

From a tourist's notebook:

Nightmare in Rio

29

Short story:

Peregrino Júnior's "A Salga" - In Portuguese

37

Travel:

That's São Paulo

40

Music:

Stinging Gabriel, O Pensador

54

Special:

Brazil: between the Third and First Worlds

DEPARTMENTS:

Rapidinhas (p. 6)

Letters (p. 14)

Brazilian Notas - A column on musical releases in the US (p. 45)

Best-seller books, plays & movies (p. 46)

Por aí (p. 47)

Classifieds (p. 49)

U.S.A. Calendar (p. 50)

That's Brazilian (p. 52)