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Energy Crisis in Brazil Brings   Dimmer Lights and Altered Lives


By LARRY ROHTER

Faced with a rapidly worsening energy crisis that threatens to
cripple Latin America's largest economy, Brazil began six months of
obligatory electricity rationing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/06/world/06BRAZ.html?ex=992834717&ei=1&en=b15f7
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