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...adjustment a lot of folks have been making of late. Since 1950, the population of Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada has increased from 1.6 million to 10 million as Americans discover the desert's clean air, warm weather, open spaces and relatively affordable housing. But without zoning codes to restrict it, much of that growth has been distressingly haphazard. By the time the Zeigers began looking for a retirement home in the 1990s, what they found was a lot of strip malls, golf clubs and sprawling subdivisions decorated here and there with cactus plants. They were horrified. "We didn...
...agreed to publish its budget.) Huge trade and budget deficits are masked by a steady stream of foreign aid that, even donors admit, has had little impact on those who need it most. Three-quarters of Laos' population lives in poverty, half do not have access to electricity or clean water, and one in 10 children die before the age of five. According to one former senior western diplomat assigned to the capital: "The country is broken...
...Such big dreams will inevitably come at a cost. Hydropower, once touted as cheap, clean energy, has fallen out of favor in recent years. In 2000, a report by the World Commission on Dams found that in developing countries the damage to communities and environment from building dams was rarely offset by the economic and developmental gains, which often failed to meet expectations. Assuming the World Bank approves funding for the project, Nam Theun 2 will be the first major new dam project the bank has supported in a decade. Opposition to the project has been fierce from international environmental...
...thought of myself as not the typical self-absorbed teenager, but I guess I was wrong. While I sit in my large, warm and cozy house, wishing for the shoes and clothes I see in teen magazines, there are people in the world wishing for something as simple as clean water. Thank you for reminding me about people who would be more than happy with what I have. Ankita Agarwal Omaha, Nebraska...
MOLLY: I haven't had drugs or alcohol in seven years. So being clean shaped much of my formative experience. The thing with that is, you can't really let anything go. If you don't deal with an issue, you'll just end up starting drugs again. Everything has to be dealt with...