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...crisis. Indeed, Thaksin's greatest success so far may be reviving the debt-laden rural economies. In the farming town of Bahn Rong Kong Khao, near the city of Chiang Mai in the country's north, the government's $2.3 billion Village Fund program, a microlending scheme, is a mini miracle, say residents. Narong Fongkraew, 50, who grows rice and chilies on his small farm, credits the Village Fund with saving not just his farm but the whole community. "After 1997, banks stopped lending to us and some people were forced to borrow from moneylenders who charged high rates...
First Lady Laura Bush’s recent trip to Paris got the United States back into the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the first time since Reagan pulled us out 20 years ago, which is good for us. It also got her into a mini sex scandal with the French president, which is also good...
...Good things come in small packages...like mini-kits. Favorites include “The Spa Kit,” “The Fondue Kit,” “Party In A Box!” and the very necessary “Fashion Emergency Kit” (which includes a sewing kit, a compact lint brush, double-sided tape, a black marker and a 32-page tip book). $5.95. Hidden Sweets...
...Been tossing your trash in CVS bags? The cyclindrical Umbra grand and mini dispensers are guaranteed to make your garbage look good. Coastal blue, platinum, black (grand only) and white (mini only). $14.99 (grand), $4.99 (mini). Dickson Brothers...
...also passes such advice on to her roommates, though their styles appear completely incongruous at first glance—Dawson with her corduroy jacket, Salisbury with her jeans and t-shirt and Gollogly in long earrings, black cutout shirt, white pleated mini-skirt and knee-high black boots. But as they’re all around the same top size, weekend wardrobe sharing is normal. “We go to Lila when we don’t know what to do,” Cherry says...