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...brothers take to market near their home in east Honiara's Vaivila remains unsold or fetches a poor price; plans to replace their wooden boats with fiberglass ones or expand the business into wholesaling are on ice. Loea used to work as a supervisor at the Gold Ridge gold mine, which closed down in 2000. One of ramsi's economic priorities is to revive the lucrative mine; another dormant project, a palm oil plantation, is closer to reality after a deal with a Papua New Guinean company. So tiny are the country's export industries that even these...
...Make Mine an Espresso...
...dust for food. So strong is the picture of famine and hunger that Ethiopian Airlines' offices around the world still field inquiries from travelers wondering whether they should bring their own meals for the flight. Upon hearing that the song had been re-recorded, an Ethiopian friend of mine, Edna Berhane, worried that it sent the same old negative message: "Here we go again. It's been 20 years, but Africa is still mired in its misery, famine, wars, genocide. Let's help them see the light ... again." In reality, Africa is a huge continent where most people...
...need to sit down,” demanded the man occupying the row directly behind mine...
...reading Winesburg, Ohio, I have always felt a certain connection with its unhappy residents, with its quiet streets. Its characters are people whom I’ve known, a hundred years on. Their isolation and misery were mine, genetically; it might actually have been my own, if my parents hadn’t managed to move out of Toledo the year I was born. Small Midwestern towns do not hold the exclusively anthropological interest for me that they do for many Harvard students, who have only flown over them, crossing from blue coast to blue coast. They are not alien...