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...water bottle, a prefab house, a tetanus shot, a biscuit. It lets relief agencies buy locally whenever possible, supporting local markets for products that are culturally and environmentally right. In the past decade, accountability has become a watchword of relief agencies around the world, with new guidelines to help donors know that their aid won't be wasted. Give money, Presidents Bush and Clinton implore, and by implication, leave the rest to professionals...
...everywhere. The Red Cross is doing heroic work in Haiti, but it is also doing it around the corner, when a house burns down. It may not feel glorious, but often the greatest good is accomplished quietly, invisibly. The choice is not either-or. We can give globally and help locally. Either way, the same principle holds in helping as in healing: First, do no harm...
...Pakistan. The kind of man, his House colleagues used to say, who could strut while sitting down. Still, he was elected 12 times from Lufkin, Texas--a town so conservative that it didn't vote to allow alcohol sales until 2006. Even those who disagreed with Wilson couldn't help but like him: the liberal columnist Molly Ivins wrote admiringly that he hadn't "an ounce of hypocrisy." Charlie Wilson's War, the 2007 movie about his work as the chief backer of the Afghan mujahedin who fought against the Soviets, opened with Tom Hanks, playing Wilson...
What can the average person do to help the national economy? -Soyeun Yang, Superior, Colo. It just really comes back to all the virtues we've been taught since we were born: hard work, education, having the proper skill set. Americans, in my judgment, are the most entrepreneurial, innovative people in the world. Sure, we have our problems, but I can't find another major economy that doesn't have more serious ones...
...Criminologist Conklin believes that two statistics in particular - median age and the unemployment rate - help explain the ebb and flow of crime. Violence is typically a young man's vice; it has been said that the most effective crime-fighting tool is a 30th birthday. The arrival of teenage baby boomers in the 1960s coincided with a rise in crime, and rates have declined as America has grown older. The median age in 1990, near the peak of the crime wave, was 32, according to Conklin. A decade later, it was over 35. Today, it is 36-plus...