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OCCUPATION Singing and dancing priest, whose "aerobics of the Lord" services are topping Brazil's charts...
Most priests won't turn supplicants away, but Brazil's Padre Marcelo Rossi, 31, must--or risk a riot. Second only to the Pope, the 6-ft. 4-in. priest is the greatest crowd gatherer in the Roman Catholic world. His appeal? After Mass, he sings and dances the Lord's praises in an electric whirlwind that he has termed, appropriately, "the aerobics of the Lord." While his followers sing along, he executes choreographed jumps, leaps and twists that the faithful try to copy. And when the spirit moves the Father especially vigorously, he will pour buckets of holy water...
Three years ago, an Indian from the Amazonian backwaters arrived at the house in Manaus, Brazil, of biologist Marc van Roosmalen holding a tin can with a little monkey shivering inside. "'Oh, no. Not another one,' I thought," recalls the Dutchman. He didn't need another monkey. Already he and his wife Betty, an artist, were caring for 50 orphaned monkeys, who swung in and out of mischief in the garden. Gingerly, Van Roosmalen poked a finger at the small ball of copper-colored fur. It squeaked fearfully...
...quest led Van Roosmalen into a previously unstudied region of the Amazon, bursting with biodiversity. So far, he and his colleagues have identified seven never before seen species of primates, a distinct species of peccary (a wild pig), a lost cousin of the Brazil-nut tree and an anthurium with leaves bigger than elephant ears. And best of all, Van Roosmalen stumbled on traces of an agricultural technique--invented by Stone Age tribes around 10,000 years ago--that may help save the Amazon from the damage caused by farmers who slash and burn the forest to clear land...
...strutted along the shore wearing women's bikini tops. After three days of ridicule, Rio's Mayor Luiz Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from Brazil's powerful Roman Catholic Church. "The human body is sacred," argued Eugenio Cardinal Sales, Archbishop of Rio. "We cannot expose it for the purpose...