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...loftier projects is coming under fire in Brazil, where the Maharishi Global Development Fund proposes to construct the first of 1,000 buildings planned for the planet's largest cities. This one, in Sao Paulo, is a four-sided, pyramid-shaped structure with Hindu carvings that will surpass the 1,483-ft.-tall Petronas Towers in Malaysia to become the world's tallest skyscraper. Opponents say Sao Paulo, virtually bankrupt as it is, would have to shoulder enormous infrastructure costs, and environmentalists claim the site is dangerously near a floodplain that is awash in the rainy season...
...With reporting by Sol Biderman/ Sao Paulo, Lauren Comiteau/the Hague and Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi
...swept into the Sao Paolo sewage system by heavy flooding and was rescued with a few bruises and broken teeth after people heard his screams in Betim, 350 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was trapped...
...after his ordination in 1989, he asked young churchgoers to stay after Mass and do aerobics, to prevent a crush at the door. His evangelical preaching style attracted so many worshippers that he had to move services to an old glass factory (capacity: 40,000) in a suburb of Sao Paolo. Now he's a multimedia sensation. He has sold nearly 5 million CDs and has 28 weekly radio shows. Thanks in part to the priest's rock-star popularity, more Brazilians are going to Mass: weekly attendance rose to 12% last year, up from...
...stressed-out adults and an increase of violence around the world. If that is what happened to the people raised on pleasant fairy tales, what will be the case with Pokemon fanatics? How will obsession with this game affect the generation of the 3rd millennium? ALEX O.R. DE LIMA Sao Paulo, Brazil...