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...Some 1,000 made the journey Stateside following the 2001 protests.) Another exodus to Cambodia has now begun. TIME has met more than 160 would-be refugees trapped in wet, mosquito-infested jungles, afraid of being rounded up by Cambodian police and repatriated. They are battling hunger and illness. "We came so that the international community would help us," says a Gia Lai man in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province. But so far, no help has come. Still, says another, "It is better to die here than in Vietnam...
...says anecdotal evidence from bond traders suggests that China's purchases of American securities are slowing. Japan's appetite for U.S. bonds might also begin to ease, if its own economy continues to recover, making domestic investments more attractive than buying American debt. If China and Japan lose their hunger for American assets, the dollar will slide. The question is: how far and how fast? A gradual drop would boost U.S. exports, cut its trade deficit, and help silence protectionist American politicians who demand that trade barriers be raised against Asian countries. But a free fall in the dollar would...
...memories of my childhood in Europe are filled with the horrors of World War II--death, hunger, cold and fear. I cannot look at it as the "Good War," as some people call it. There is no such thing. War at any time is a total collapse of civilization and is ultimately a terribly dehumanizing event. ISABELLA MIRAM La Jolla, Calif...
Hope is an infectious disease, and Reagan was a carrier. The country he courted and finally won over in 1980 was a dispirited place, humiliated abroad, uncertain at home, with a hunger for heroes but little faith that they could make any difference. But you can, he told us. I am not the hero, you are. "Let us renew our faith and our hope," he declared in his first Inaugural Address. "We have every right to dream heroic dreams." And he would serve as Dreamer in Chief. "What I'd really like to do," he said after six months...
...Japanese industrialist called him 16 years ago when he was thinking of retiring [and] asked why [progress in combatting hunger hadn’t been made] in Africa,” says Borlaug’s nephew, Ted Behrens, who founded the Heritage Foundation...