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...bigger debt burdens. Indeed, the bailouts may even have contributed to the problem of debt crises, by inducing bad lending practices. The failure in the last six years of the mega-bailouts - in Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Russia, Brazil, Argentina - made it apparent that an alternative is needed. Since the '80s, alternatives have been proposed - allowing nations to declare bankruptcy and standstills in the same way that individual debtors who cannot meet their obligations are permitted to have a fresh start, or at least reschedule payments. But these were long rejected by the IMF, which felt they were an abrogation...
...says Ben Parker, spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan. "Few survive into their twenties." Isolated and underdeveloped, the region is no stranger to exotic diseases, including river blindness and sleeping sickness. Missionaries first encountered nodding disease in 1997, but locals say it's been around since the '80s. Its spread was likely helped by the 20-year-old civil war; perhaps when Sudanese refugees with no immunity contracted the ailment. Nodding disease has so far been found only in a small area, where a 2002 survey...
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...early to know whether Petersen and the screenwriter, novelist David Benioff (25th Hour), will be partisan or neutral. But Troy is bound to be handsome. The cinematographer is Roger Pratt, who shot Brazil and Batman in the '80s and gave a nicely sepulchral tone to last year's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And heading the cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien...
Word spread, and 2002's equally good Kill the Moonlight enlarged the cult. As with R.E.M. in the late '80s, one senses that Spoon could be not just a distinctive band but the rare distinctive band that is also popular. Daniel is sequestered at home in Austin, Texas, adhering to a strict writing regimen in order to get a new album, Captured to Be Cooked, out by spring 2004. "I try to get up early, have some cereal, have a run and then don't talk to anybody for eight hours," he says. "It's really hard." Daniel has written...