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...city officials debate what to do with all the vacant buildings still dotting the map, or how to beef up the arson squad to catch the culprits, they might do well to think a little more thoroughly about the fate of Boston's changing neighborhoods, and how to enable poorer long-term residents to stay put in their homes...
...India's problems. Our biggest problem is backwardness, the disparities between the haves and the havenots. But I would like to say it is not true that the rich are richer and the poor are poorer. The rich are richer, as they are all over the world. But I would not say that the poor are poorer, except that they are more conscious of it. The general level of living is higher, and a lot of people have come into the middle class. But poverty remains. There are other difficulties, some of which we share with other countries...
...produce most cheaply, everyone stands to gain. The decades of record growth after World War II were also a time of rapid expansion of world trade, whereas the Great Depression developed during a period of rising tariffs and international tensions. A return to protectionism would leave everyone poorer...
...minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only in its earliest stages...
According to Silverman et al., the multinational drug companies practice a "blatant double standard" in selling products to poorer nations. Side-effect warnings that are disclosed in drug reference books in industrialized nations are sometimes left out of guides used in underdeveloped lands. Products that are outlawed or severely restricted in the Western world-clioquinol and aminopyrine, a fever and pain remedy linked to a serious blood ailment-are dumped in the unregulated markets of Southeast Asia. Many of these products are elaborately promoted. Clioquinol was touted on Indonesian television until the government banned all TV commercials last year. Other...