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January 29, 2013

Nightclub Fire Could Mark Turning Point for Brazil

Tim Padgett, Time

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On Sunday night, Brazilian websites began posting the names, photos and bios of the 233 victims of that morning’s horrific nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria. What stands out is that half of them were college students from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria’s agronomy department.

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