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...rebels. School Inferno INDIA Police arrested five people in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, including the owner of a private school, on suspicion of negligence after at least 88 children died and dozens more suffered serious burns in a fire that gutted the school building. A Striking Difference PERU Labor unions claimed wide support for a 24-hour national strike to protest President Alejandro Toledo's free-market economic policies, while the government said that most employees had reported for work. Opinion polls show Toledo 's approval rating at less than 10%. MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Get Your...
Kimberly Theidon is a medical anthropologist who studies the aftermath of war in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador...
Theidon’s research began in Peru, where she looked at postwar processes. She continues to examine how individuals contribute to the peacemaking process on both the domestic and the international level...
...offers a simple solution: give these underground denizens legal title to their homes and businesses. That would grant them access to bank credit and investment capital, much as the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries enriched Western Europe and North America. A limited experiment in Peru in the 1990s proved the idea had merit when it brought in more than $1 billion in new tax revenue. Some 30 heads of state, from Egypt to Mexico, have hired de Soto for similar projects. "I think our time has come," says de Soto. "Four billion people exist outside...
...track and cross country runner, Dell wrote in an e-mail that an experience in Peru taught her that determination and hard work did not always pay off for everyone...