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Whatever the composition of a post-Somoza government, it will inherit a ravaged country. Nicaragua today is a wasteland plagued by food shortages and looting, and only time and hundreds of millions of dollars will revive it. The country's major industries, located primarily on an eight-mile stretch of the Pan American Highway near the capital, have been destroyed by the government bombings directed against the guerrillas who were camped there two weeks ago. More serious is the destruction of Nicaragua's crops: agriculture normally provides 80% of the country's foreign exchange. This year...
...diabetes requires daily injections of insulin, the hormone used by the body to help burn sugar. But even with life-giving insulin therapy, there may be severe complications, including blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks and stroke. Partly because insulin keeps people alive long enough to bear children who may inherit the disease, the prevalence of diabetes has been increasing for the past several decades by a disturbing 6% a year...
William Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian minister and antiwar activist, on strategic arms talks: "We must be moved to press not only for SALT II, but for SALT III, IV, V and VI. We have to be meek, or there will be no one left to inherit the earth...
Getty's Reminder. The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.−Oil Millionaire J. Paul Getty...
...present prosperity. Of all the recent social changes, none is more remarkable than the liberation of Iraqi women. Today they constitute one-third of the country's professional class and 26% of its industrial work force. Unlike their sisters in many other Arab states, they can own land, inherit property and, if divorced, receive alimony...