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Fortunately, such anger and fear are rare on either side of the Rio Grande. Not only is Perot's warning about American jobs vanishing south with a "giant sucking sound" not coming true, but thousands of tractor-trailer rigs are rumbling through the border crossings -- carrying beer, heavy machinery, clothing, electronics. Eight months after NAFTA went into effect, trade is up, prices are down for consumers and no massive layoffs have occurred...
...find some consensus language that papers over the conflicts, which usually happens with U.N. documents. The need for consensus reduces action plans to pallid, inoffensive wish lists that quickly disappear into bureaucratic oblivion after the signing ceremonies. Such was the outcome of the Earth Summit that convened in Rio de Janeiro two years ago. But continued indecisiveness on the population issue may be a formula for disaster. Speaking in Washington recently, Nobel-laureate physicist Henry Kendall of M.I.T. observed, "If we don't control the population with justice, humanity and mercy, it will be done for us by nature -- brutally...
...round education seems to be working. Before switching to its new schedule, Socorro schools had some of the lowest test scores in the county. Now Socorro students outscore the state average on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. One Socorro school, Campestre Elementary, sits just 200 yards from the Rio Grande; two-thirds of its predominantly Hispanic students have limited English proficiency. Yet 87% of Campestre's third-, fourth- and fifth-graders passed the state's achievement exam, compared with 67% before the school started its year-round schedule four years...
Anyone who has watched the village T.V. with a coat hanger for an antenna. Anyone who has kicked a ball full of rags through the slums of Rio or fallen to neatly manicured German turf in celebration. It is the game and passion of the world. We should count ourselves thankful that it was held here this summer. And we must hope it comes back...
...Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Ian McCluskey...