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...herself get slowed down by what other people might consider obstacles. So it was only natural that she would take the new Braille system to the place where it was most needed: Tibet. Although widely regarded as a mountain paradise, Tibet has twice as much blindness per capita as the global average, due to high altitude and sun exposure. (The proportion of sightless Tibetans is 1 in 70.) Treatment there has long been hampered by the belief that blindness is a punishment for misdeeds in a previous life. And so, beginning in 1997, Tenberken traveled the mountain country on horseback...
...domestic product (GDP) has on average grown 3.4% annually compared with 6.5% for all of East Asia's developing countries. More than half of the population still lives on $2 a day or less. In recent years, the plight of many has worsened. Morgan Stanley estimates that GDP per capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption (a survey conducted last year by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency...
...cattle, which are innocent grass eaters. Goichi Fukui Miura, Japan It is outrageous that any conservationist could condone trophy hunting. Animal charities show their greed if they tolerate this practice. You noted that hunters pay as much as $80,000 to shoot a lion in Tanzania (where the per capita income is around $600). What is an individual's life worth there? Local communities should be encouraged to earn money through sustainable tourism and agriculture. If citizens can support themselves by sharing their wilderness and wildlife with tourists, poaching will decrease. Killing for pleasure sends the wrong message. Helaine Cadman...
...draw, and Peljor outshot No. 13 seed Jocelyn de Grandis of France in the men's. Both lost in the next round, but Chhoden says: "I couldn't have made it here without the scholarship." An Olympic-standard bow costs about $2,000 - nearly three times the annual per capita income in Bhutan. MARIA MUTOLA Olympic Solidarity was the model for the Maria Mutola Foundation, which funds promising young Mozambican athletes. "Solidarity is huge, my foundation is small, but I've tried to do the same thing," she says. None of the five athletes she supports has made the national...
...Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin only begin to address the problem. Before the next presidential election, in 2007, the government says it will force through almost €10 billion in savings by cutting back on reimbursements for visits to specialists, favoring generic rather than brand-name drugs (per capita, the French are the world's most heavily medicated population), and cracking down on liberal sick leave. On top of that, the government wants to haul in another €5 billion in contributions. Beginning next month, patients will pay a single nonrefundable euro for every consultation with a doctor. Doubts have...