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...leaders left for exile or went underground. Others, like Suu Kyi or poet turned activist Min Ko Naing, were jailed for long stretches. Burmese dissidents may have gained a martyr-like fame abroad, but their grand ideals of freedom and democracy resonated less with a public just struggling to feed itself. Yet in recent months, the opposition has started addressing such bread-and-butter issues more effectively - and that could turn the current economic protests into a future base of political support. "Most Burmese have only known dictatorship, so when you talk about democracy it means nothing to them," says...
...cramped single-room quarters? "Delhi is a city of migrants," says Madhu Kishwar from Manushi Sangathan, a street vendors' collective. "Someone running a food stall probably lives in a miserable hovel where there's no space for cooking. And if you remove all the street food hawkers, who would feed the millions of brown collar workers, many of who were rural migrants and lived in similar hovels with no space or time for cooking? Certainly, nowhere else could they find full meals for as little as ten to fifteen rupees...
...Tournament Team. GEORGE MASON 2, HARVARD 1 The Crimson managed just one shot on goal in 90 minutes against George Mason Sunday. It was a good one, but not quite good enough for Harvard to avoid its first loss of the season. Merritt scored off a pretty feed from Nichols in the 69th minute, but the Crimson couldn't complete the comeback after allowing two Patriot goals earlier in the second half. George Mason struck soon after the break, scoring just two minutes into the second frame on a header from L.J. Williams. "The game really went back and forth...
...efforts to manage the Mekong also threaten their way of life. An astounding 17% of all fish caught in inland waters worldwide come from this generous river, while 90% of the basin's residents are subsistence farmers who largely depend on the Mekong's nutrient-rich waters to feed their fields. Yet Chinese dams, along with engineering projects to make the river navigable by larger vessels, have begun to ravage the river's ecology by blocking sediment and producing unnatural water flows that dissuade fish migration and spawning. The nonprofit Southeast Asian Rivers Network estimates that fish stocks...
...suggests Luque, people "prefer more elaborate theories." Says Ariano Medina, a beet farmer in the village of Fresno el Viejo, echoing a rumor common in these parts, "These aren't the moles we've had all our lives. I heard that scientists working for the government created them to feed endangered birds of prey...