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BURITICUPU: A few steps from a cliff-edge, Deusimar Batista is hanging clothes to dry in her yard. Near it, a neighbour's house used to stand on a residential street, but they have all collapsed into the abyss. Batista is from the city of Buriticupu, in northeastern Brazil, where residents are living a nig