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...lasting effect of all these groups on the region is both endearing and surreal, and the best way to experience it is with a tour of Santa Catarina state. The heart of the region - and one of the few places in Brazil where renting a car is a good idea - Santa Catarina is a meandering mix of lush valleys, vibrant beach life and gentle fishing villages where the legacy of early pioneers lives on. From tiny Azorean settlements like the village at Armação with its colonial-style chapel, to the grand timber-framed Germanic architecture of Blumenau...
...failure to prevent the invasion left White House aides reluctant to have further direct presidential involvement in the crisis. There was considerable concern that Reagan's image had been damaged when word was released that he had talked for as long as 50 minutes with Galtieri without having any effect...
...struck the source of the visceral unease that the term provokes. “Homeland Security” resembles a call for devotion to safeguarding some German “fatherland” or Soviet “motherland.”The term seems to achieve such an effect from a combination of two characteristics: first, by indicating that the well-being of the domineering “land” takes precedence over that of its people, and second, by the choice of Germanic word-collision over more harmonious Latinate diction such as “domestic...
...uncertain economy may also have helped quiet the sexual scene. Though no one can demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship, sexual caution and money troubles seem to go hand in hand, in the '30s as in the '80s. A common saying among sex therapists is "sex goes up with the stock market." The free spirits of the '60s are the busy careerists of the '80s, hustling for a dollar in a competitive job market. "The students you talk to want to do well," says retired Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "They want to do more than pass their courses, and they...
...America's defenses against terrorism. "The terrorist threats to our nation are very real and grave, and inaction by the House in the face of these risks is unacceptable," says White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Democrats counter that many of the authorizations in the stopgap law will remain in effect for another year after it expires. "They've manufactured a crisis where none exists," says Jim Manely, spokesman for Senate majority leader Harry Reid. More than anything, though, the battle is a test of whether the country has moved past the "whatever-it-takes" politics of national security that followed...