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...like those of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto all the more welcome. De Soto has spent years looking deep inside the underground economies where poor people--who make up two-thirds of the world's population--eke out a living. He figures the value of their extralegal property, from cinder-block squatter homes to black-market street-vendor sales, at almost $10 billion. De Soto insists that bringing the poor and their assets into the formal economy, which is usually closed to them by oligarchies and epic red tape, would eclipse all previous development efforts...
Cool, of course, comes at a price. Botway's room sets her parents back $6,270 a school year. Shared rooms in older McCormick Hall cost just $2,842. But at McCormick, cinder-block rooms line narrow corridors, bathrooms are communal, and lighting is fluorescent--in other words, it's just a regular dorm. "There was no way I was going to live there," Botway says with a shudder. "It's dark, depressing, and everything smells." Mom stands by her: "We've scraped it together because we felt it was more important to have her in a healthy environment," says...
...state that is not so much narcotic as contemplative. "The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the time of ordinary experience, a space and time of heightened attention that give rise to a feeling of transcendence, evoked through the ritual of fire, smoke, cinder connecting hands, lungs, breath, and mouth. It procures a little rush of infinity that alters perspectives, however slightly, and permits, albeit briefly, an ecstatic standing outside of oneself...
Saddam has aimed all along to draw coalition forces deep into Baghdad's back streets and cinder-block neighborhoods, where his forces could neutralize American technological superiority with guerrilla tactics that put civilians in the middle. He saw how faithful defenders hidden in Iraq's southern cities scored surprising success holding out. The U.S. desperately wants to sidestep that kind of bloody door-to-door fighting, which could drag out the war and rack up unacceptable body counts among American troops and innocent Iraqis...
...lobby of the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., a mannequin models timeless military fashion: black beret, battle-dress uniform and lace-up boots. But elsewhere within the 50-year-old cinder-block buildings, plans are afoot to clothe the future warrior--and perhaps us--in the stuff of science fiction...