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...ARGENTINA, BRAZIL...
...counts on arms-control regimes, an interlocking set of treaties that come with inspections and punishments, to keep down the nuclear head count, notably the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty signed by 149 nations and the 1970 nonproliferation treaty signed by 185 countries. These treaties do work: Argentina and Brazil both signed and no longer talk of building a bomb; South Korea and Taiwan have halted their nuclear programs; South Africa has voluntarily dismantled its small nuclear arsenal; Iraq has been manhandled into giving up its nuclear preparations. But that still leaves out plenty of ambitious nations, with little...
...Sanchez album, Obsesion, is more of an ensemble piece. As a player, he seems most excited by rhythmic ideas; the tunes are Latin standards from Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil, and Sanchez delights in reversing field on them, turning a gentle Antonio Carlos Jobim song, for instance, into a rowdy Caribbean parade. The album really soars when the accompanying 10-piece orchestra forgoes modest backing and muscles its way into the dance along with the congas. It's the kind of witty arranging that could give strings a good name...
...comes to gun deaths. What you didn?t know is by how much. A new study from the CDC puts it at 14.24 per 100,000 people, or nearly half the 88,000 firearm deaths reported in the 36 richest nations in 1994 -- easily beating out competition from Brazil, Mexico, Estonia, Argentina and even Northern Ireland. ?I was surprised by the magnitude of the difference,? said researcher Dr. Etienne Krug. ?I was not surprised to find the United States...
...Mitraud, a Sao Paulo university student,was among those seduced. The daughter of a Brazilian economic-planning-ministry bureaucrat, she had been brought up to care more about her Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between...