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...spent $3.3 billion on cotton subsidies in 2005, more than half of Mali's gross domestic product. "We're not judging you--if we could subsidize our farmers, we'd do it!" says Abdoulaye Diop, Mali's ambassador to the U.S. "But you're hurting some of the poorest farmers in the world...
Soweto, a few miles from central Johannesburg, is one of South Africa's most notorious townships--the congested, occasionally chaotic home to millions of the country's poorest citizens. A tour is now practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa, to see how much the country has changed and how far it still has to go. Both Jimmy's Face to Face Tours (www.face2face.co.za) and Max Maximum Tours www.backpackafrica.com offer quality guided visits. Nearby is the Apartheid Museum www.apartheidmuseum.org) at which visitors are randomly assigned a racial classification and then enter the raw concrete-and-steel structure through...
...Carter Center do? And how is it related to Habitat for Humanity? Ruth Bennett, Sterling Heights, Mich. The Carter Center is completely separate. We put in 51 weeks a year on the center and one week on Habitat. The center is designed to meet the needs of the poorest and most forgotten people in the world. We deal with neglected diseases. We mediate disputes. The thing that gets the most publicity is Habitat. Last year we built 100 homes in India in just four days because Brad Pitt showed up and we were inundated with unanticipated volunteers...
Spared the thorough destruction suffered by left-bank Warsaw in WW II, the area has preserved the 19th and early 20th century buildings not found elsewhere in the Polish capital. Under communism, it became home to the poorest of the poor, and its petty crime scared off most Varsovians...
...Even mammals, warm-blooded in metabolism and-we like to think-temperament, can play a similarly pitiless game. Runts of litters are routinely ignored, pushed out or consigned to the worst nursing spots somewhere near Mom's aft end, where the milk flow is the poorest and the outlook for survival the bleakest. The rest of the brood is left to fight it out for the best, most milk-rich positions...