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Other recent endeavors at Harvard for Dell include co-founding A Drop in the Ocean—offering microloans to poorer women...
Media coverage in the United States all too commonly refers to the plight of the typical American driver who has now found himself another couple of hundred dollars poorer thanks to fuel costs. Their response is to shake their fist at the Saudis, or Russia or whoever else has been most recently accused of constricting supply; or, if you’re listening to National Public Radio, it’s the oil companies’ fault...
...year and must produce over 50% of the food they sell to tourists. In Britain, Germany and elsewhere, there are stringent health and safety controls, including fire regulations and rules governing contact with farm animals. That might scare off a laid-back farmer, but in other places, especially poorer regions, including Poland, farmers are undeterred. Slawomir Bojar, a Polish electronics specialist, got into the agritourism business last year because he was looking for a change of pace after heart surgery. He and his wife bought a 100-year-old property near the shore of Lake Sarag in the Mazurian district...
...hazards faced by travelers everywhere: drunk drivers, bad weather, heavy traffic. But developing countries harbor a host of other factors that heighten the peril. With car and motorcycle sales rising fast, deficit-ridden governments are hard-pressed to build wider, safer highways to accommodate swarms of new commuters. In poorer nations, existing road systems are often badly maintained and lack basic infrastructure such as stop signs and traffic signals. Traffic in Asia is frequently a tumultuous and deadly mix of pedestrians, affordable (but highly vulnerable) motorcycles, cars, pickup trucks ferrying loads of passengers, and heavy trucks that feed the region...
...week to fill up my truck," he says. He worries about paying his variable-rate mortgage and Rita's student loans now that interest rates are higher. "I wouldn't say the economy is getting any better," he says. "The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is carrying all of them...