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Money in their pockets, agrees Li Xiumin, is the prerequisite for confidence and self-esteem, and it is not easy to acquire in these rough hills. She has been working hard to teach the poorest villagers that the government is no longer going to provide them with handouts and that they have to take responsibility for their own economic advancement. That is the most difficult thing for them to change, she says. "The government has conditioned them in the opposite for so long," she says. "Now we have to make them understand that they must use their own enterprise...
...something was happening that Iran had never seen before. It was exemplified last week in Fadiyian Islam, one of south Tehran's poorest neighborhoods and a former bedrock of support for Khomeini. Thousands of ecstatic Iranians overflowed into the dusty streets shouting, "Khatami! Khatami! You're the hope!" as they rushed toward a 54-year-old black-turbaned cleric, nearly crushing him as he mounted a podium inside a mosque. In the election campaign that began four weeks ago, Mohammed Khatami was a sensation. Surveys showed his support climbing from 13.9% to 20.2% to 52% on election eve. On Saturday...
...anyone go to the University of California or go to college," he told a TIME town meeting last week in Sacramento. The University of California is proposing such a program; it wants to spend tens of millions of dollars to mentor students in some of the state's poorest school districts...
...TIME/CNN poll, 80% of working people say they're not worried about losing their jobs, up from 69% last winter. Incomes are rising among families of every level (wages and benefits were up almost 5% last month), with the poorest Americans seeing the largest percentage gain. Poverty rates for elderly and black Americans are at their lowest levels since Washington began keeping track of such matters in 1959. Welfare rolls are shrinking, and though too many human beings are falling destitute as a result, many more are being forced to remake their lives for the better. People who haven...
...said. In the end, 678 nuns who were 75 or older enlisted. To them, participating in the study seemed an extension of their mission to care for the sick and the poor. "A person with Alzheimer's disease," said an elderly sister, "is one of the poorest people I know...