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...their publications' other life-style columnists, some are nationally syndicated, and a few have had their work collected in book form. None are precise Erma clones, and they wryly observe life from varieties of settings including city apartments and even Embassy Row. But wherever they call home, the dryer is on the fritz and the kids are unfathomable. Following is a selection of the different types who are working their own corners of territory in and around Bombeck country...
...triumph of optimism; Enrique becomes a waiter in a posh restaurant; Rosa finds work first in a garment factory (where she sees models "Just like in a magazine!") and then as housemaid to an amusingly prim matron who unsuccessfully tries to teach her how to operate a computerized washer-dryer...
...began his speech on pre-professionalism telling about a sign above one University washroom's hand dryer. He said the sign read. "Press button below for two-minute address from University president...
...people are shot when a group of desperate families raids a flood-control embankment. The wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with raw sewage, and medical teams distribute antityphoid vaccine and foot-fungus ointment. It is monsoon season in Southeast Asia, and as this year's rains have made all too obvious, Bangkok (pop. 5.5 million) is slowly sinking...
From India to South Africa, from Brazil to the Philippines, the vicious cycle of drought is having a devastating effect. Bush fires have scorched the arid ground in Ghana and Liberia; in Brazil hot winds from the east have made the desiccated ground still dryer. Some 2 million people are seriously undernourished in South Africa; 3 million in Ethiopia are totally dependent on emergency supplies. In India, where crops throughout 75% of the land have been ruined by a dry spell that in one state has lasted five years, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has had to spend $600 million...