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But many areas remain plagued by incompetence, overstaffing and corruption, says Jose Matias Pereira, a public administration professor at the University of Brasilia.
 
"People don't hang their coats and leave for the day anymore -- things have changed," said Jose Wilson Granjeiro, who was a civil servant for 17 years and runs a school to prep candidates in Brasilia.
 
Only a public outcry this month stopped ruling party and opposition senators from appointing themselves another well-paid staffer each, posts widely thought to favour friends or political allies.
 
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former union leader, cut some pension benefits during his first year in office but since has hired as many as 95,000 civil servants and is expected to hire 56,000 more by next year in part to help replace cheaper, outsourced labour.
 
"We're rolling back privatization, which wanted to cut our benefits," said Sergio Ronaldo da Silva, director of the Condsef civil servants confederation.
 
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Two Michigan sisters surprised hospital staff and themselves by giving birth to daughters on the same day. The Hillsdale Daily News reported that Sarah Sweeter made the trip from Kalamazoo to be with her sister Deborah Lewis in Homer for the birth of her niece on Wednesday.
 
Sweeter wasn't due for at least a week, but 13 hours after Lewis gave birth to her daughter, Ariel, Sweeter had her own daughter, whom she named Wednesday.
 
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