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Though the aid has been lifesaving, it has not been as effectively used as it could be. Inefficiency and corruption of local bureaucrats have slowed the distribution of the emergency supplies. In Mali and Niger, officials have diverted some of the donated grain to commercial channels for sale at enormous...
RUBIN'S BUON YUN has had to make some adaptations to modern Vietnam: for instance, it's encircled by rows of fire-hardened bamboo spikes and anti-personnel mines set between two fences of nine-foot wooden stakes. But inside, people live much as they always have--the way the...
Now both the tower ritual and the Parsi community itself seem to be on the decline. As high-rise apartments go up around Malabar Hill, it has become easier to catch a glimpse of what was once forbidden to all but the tower attendants-a view of the interior of...
Armed with my peanuts, I walked away from the center of the village. Two-story adobe structures lined the street. These were not the miserable hovels that one sees massed in the slums of La Paz or Cochabamba. They were solid, and only occasionally did one see a crack in...
Here was where people came to buy their coca. Two-foot high transparent bags appeared green with the small leaves that the Bolivian Indians chew as part of a tradition dating back millenia. On the altiplano, where the nights are wintry and food scarce, the coca leaves, when chewed hour...