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...respond. But even if aid had come quicker, the situation shows how intractable some of Africa's problems are. The bitter truth is that there are some countries in Africa that will have trouble pulling themselves out of poverty no matter how much help they get. Niger, the second poorest country in the world, is one such place. It has uranium (a fact many people now know, thanks to President Bush's reference to the country in his pre?Iraq invasion State of the Union address), and it attracts adventurous tourists to the fascinating town of Agadez and the stunning...
...prosperous Tokyo to the Shimane prefecture town of Ohda, a listless burg struggling to support its aging population of 33,000. Along an incongruously wide, modern superhighway linking Ohda with the nearest train station, the only signs of economic activity are abandoned construction sites. Shimane is one of the poorest and least populated regions in Japan and has no industry to speak of save public-works projects; one out of eight residents is tied to the construction industry. But because of fiscal austerity measures implemented by the Shimane prefectural government, even public-works jobs are under threat...
...UNESCO?whose World Heritage Committee meets this week in Durban, South Africa, to review global conservation efforts?calls India "the world's biggest heritage site." But even conservationists like Thakur admit that it's impossible, even immoral, for a developing nation with a quarter of the world's poorest inhabitants to spend the fortune needed to preserve that history. The country's main heritage body, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is so constrained financially that it limits its care to just 3,653 buildings?and, even for these, worries remain. The ASI's 2004-5 budget of $58 million...
...part, Barbara Johnson maintains that those provisions fully reflected Johnson Sr.'s oft-expressed intentions. She notes that in 1944 he established trust funds for his children that, if left untouched, would be valued at $110 million each. Despite nibbling at the principal, even the poorest of the Johnson offspring is still worth at least $23 million. The elder Johnson had informed them in a long succession of previous wills that he would not leave them anything more. One reason, says Barbara, is that the old man was offended by their penchant for scandal. For example, there was J. Seward...
...known for the purest swing and the poorest luck in the National League. When the fifth game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep...