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Inspired by her idol, Rebecca Lobo of the Women's National Basketball Association, Eva plays on five teams at once. Meals are on the fly, and other social activities are rare. Mar can only pray that the sacrifice will pay off in college aid. "By the time I graduate, it's going to be almost time for the two eldest kids to go to college," she says. "I'll need all the help I can get to pay for their education...
...invasion of Panama to the plan to thwart Osama Bin Laden. To bring us this week's story on the U.S. plot to oust Slobodan Milosevic, Waller, our State Department correspondent, canvassed officials in the intelligence community and the State Department, as well as nongovernment agencies that provide aid overseas. "No one person has all the information," he says. "There is not a silver bullet of a source." His experience suggests that covering the diplomacy to end a war can be as harrowing as covering the war itself, though he concedes it is "a heck of a lot less dangerous...
Most developing countries aggressively sell ecotourism, while few foreign-aid programs are complete without an ecotourism element. Two years ago, Brazil unveiled a $200 million program to develop ecotourism in the Amazon region. A project to build a visitors center, upgrade trails and construct canopy walkways has saved Ghana's Kakum rain forest from logging and other depredations. The park now employs 2,000 local people and attracts 40,000 tourists a year. Receipts from about 1,600 visitors each day are keeping afloat the Xcaret ecopark in Yucatan, Mexico--and also funding the 50 scientists who work there...
Guided and trained by GTZ, Germany's technical-aid agency, and INRENA, Peru's natural-resources institute, the Matsiguenkas hope to profit from tourism without destroying their own fragile way of life. Contact between tourists and themselves is kept to a minimum; photography is curbed; and tour-group access is limited to certain locations and times of year. The operation is run by a small group of Matsiguenkas, some technical advisers from GTZ and a hired administrator who collects payments. Profits go entirely to the Matsiguenkas to be used as they choose. So far, that has been mostly for medicines...
...definitely find a place for him here," Illingworth says of the Elvis, which hung on his Byerly Hall wall while he was associate director of financial aid last year. "I found him to be a humanizing influence in admissions...