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...reasons he liked Kenya, I suppose, was that, under a dispensation of neglect, the paved roads the British had built in colonial days were rapidly crumbling, from the shoulders in to the center line, and reverting to pot-holed track. I imagine my friend thought that if he could hold out long enough, animals and people would eventually have dirt paths again - a happier state, in his view...
...mark. The CIA paints a grim picture of the country's infrastructure: Its roads are falling apart because of the heavy freight trucks that pound the pavement. Those trucks, the CIA says, are on the highways because of the collapse of Nigeria's railways after years of neglect. U.S. aid to Nigeria has mushroomed from $7 million two years ago - funneled around the government to humanitarian groups - to $108 million today. While that's a sharp rise, it still amounts to less than $1 annually per Nigerian...
...Mike Allen/Roberto Suro hears Bush issue "a strong indictment today of the Clinton administration's military policy, warning of its 'long neglect' of soldiers and 'a military in decline' - an assessment that drew an unusually swift and pointed response from the secretary of defense." This is one touchy bunch of lame ducks...
...Here is one side of the controversy that plan has generated: Loggers like Galen Hamilton are outraged. They think that the forest fires now burning up the West are connected to policies like the roadless initiative, to what might be called the sentimental neglect of forests - the failure to manage them properly, to thin the woods, clear the deadfall, and diminish the dense fuel that burns apocalyptically hot when fire does come...
...proportion of his foreign policy energy over the past two years searching for an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. But Republican critics, while supporting these efforts, are concerned that relationships far more fundamental to U.S. national interests, such as those with China and with Russia, have been allowed, through neglect, inconsistency and even opinion poll-driven judgment, to drift into dangerous waters...