Here, Plaintiffs did not establish what percentage of the class was comprised of inhabitants of urban centers and rural areas, persons who did not complete high school, as well as high school and college graduates, those who are impoverished fortuitously and those who are of modest means by choice or avocation, or persons with some financial acumen versus those without any.

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Inhabitants will zip from one urban center to another in an hour or less, a real feat because the area is separated by the wide mouth of the muddy Pearl River.

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Still, Mr Ciafardini reckons that the 12m inhabitants of the capital and the urban area around it suffered 3.5m robberies or violent crimes in 1998.

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Sao Paulo's inhabitants suffer from a high degree of urban paranoia stemming from the knowledge of the huge gap between rich and poor in Brazil, and the underclass that this creates.

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