DECEMBER
2000

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CONTENTS:

06
Fashion:

Giselle, ma belle
top model

07
Law:

US expatriates
adoptee from Brazil

08
For Laughs:

USA will never
stop counting the votes

10
Amazon:

Looking for
a better defense

11
COVER
STORY

Good news from
the female front

18
Politics:

In Brazilian politics
impunity is forever

20
Ecology:

The Amazon
is ours alone

21
Rumors:

American maps
internationalize the Amazon

24
Immigration:

Brazilians take
American Midwest

27
Short Story:

"A Família" by
Mafra Carbonieri
In Portuguese

33
Travel:

Rio way
past sunset

36
Travelogue:

I left my
sweet tooth in Rio

38
Government:

Brazilian bureaucracy
exported to USA

39
Impressions:

Fragile, precious
São Luís do Maranhão

42
Music:

The original sounds
of Curitiba, Paraná

52
Medicine:

Brave Escola
Tropicalista Baiana

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