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...next week's International Conference on Population and Development than crowded, chaotic Cairo. Home to 14 million people, the Egyptian capital shows all too clearly the consequences of the inexorable human drive to have children. Cairo's open space per capita must be measured in square inches, and the poorest citizens build shelters on rooftops, in cemeteries and in the city dump. Cramped conditions are nothing new, of course, but even old-timers lament that population pressures are making Egyptians "bestial" to one another...
SOCIETY: The Poorest Place in America...
Senior correspondent Jack E. White has witnessed poverty in its worst degrees, from the refugee camps of Africa to the inner cities of America. But his experience failed to prepare him for the sights of Lake Providence, Louisiana, which according to Census figures is the poorest place in America. In this decrepit town he found crumbling shotgun shacks, burned-out houses and a poverty so desperate it has resisted all the remedies of the past three decades. "People told me, 'Be prepared for something like you've never seen,' " says White. "They turned out to be right. Most Americans would...
...Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia and eastern Germany, deaths are outnumbering births, in some areas 2 to 1. Life expectancy in nearly every part of the East is dropping, especially among men, at a time when even the poorest Third World countries are recording steady increases. In Hungary the average is 65 for men and 74 for women, in contrast to 67.3 and 75 in 1975 and to 73.4 and 81.8 for French men and women today. Death rates in Russia have soared 30% since 1989, with men bearing the brunt, says demographer Murray Feshbach of Georgetown University. By his estimate, life...
...There is another motivation: the cost of continued delay. Some activists are warning of the risks of social explosion if something is not done to break the desperate cycles of life in America's poorest precincts. "The conditions are desolate now," Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros warned Clinton, after Cisneros visited housing projects in Chicago. "With meager public resources coming in, what people would do in desperation, I don't know. But what I do know is that some intellectual arguments made around a conference table in Washington are far removed from the concerns of real people...