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...sets out the equation. "We have too many mouths to feed and not enough food," he says. Despite the nearby emergency feeding center that treats the hungriest, two infants died last year. This season, Salou fears they may lose more. A year after the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered in Scotland to work out a deal to help Africa, the results are still in the balance. The deal - a doubling of aid for the continent by 2010 and debt cancellation for eligible, heavily indebted poor countries, most of them African - was hailed as a breakthrough...
...bottom of a tunnel near Barramundi Gap, warm water was seeping from the rocks. That was a clue to a find that now produces about 100,000 carats of dull-brown rough every day and has about 1 trillion carats left to give. The Argyle Diamond Mine is the richest in the world in terms of the sheer number of stones, but they are small and dingy, mostly the color of breakfast tea. They seemed destined to end up as knife blades, dental tools and drilling bits...
...There's a world of differences. I'm willing to take on the tough issues of closing corporate loopholes and ask the wealthy to give back some of their huge tax breaks. I believe we'll be the richest, strongest California if we have the best schools, more young people going to college, and expand health care for working families. This governor has cut education, he's failed to balance the budget, and he's turned his back on working men and women...
...together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. Just because we are sitting together doesn't mean we have anything to say: children bicker and fidget and daydream; parents stew over the remains of the day. Often the richest conversations, the moments of genuine intimacy, take place somewhere else, in the car, say, on the way back from soccer at dusk, when the low light and lack of eye contact allow secrets to surface...
Whatever his program, Kabila could not be worse than Mobutu, who reduced a nation that should be among the richest in Africa to utter penury. Meanwhile, Mobutu and his cronies looted the treasury of billions of dollars. In addition to his many secret bank accounts, Mobutu owns nine villas in Belgium, an estate on the French Riviera and an apartment in Paris; property in Johannesburg, Dakar, Abidjan and Morocco; a coffee plantation in Brazil; and, in the cellars of his estate in Portugal, 14,000 bottles of past-its-prime wine from 1930, the year of his birth. The dictator...