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Just then that aeroplane backfired overhead and I reflexively threw my beer into the air and watched it roll frothily down into the Saharan valley. But I payed my brewskie no heed because my eyes were glued heavenward. Holly, Dave and I stood agape, for humankind's wizardry had faltered. The engine of the plane had stopped...
...Miami is far more than just South America's shopping mall. From its Latin American headquarters in Miami, the telecommunications giant AT&T covers one-third of the world, reaching as far as South America and sub-Saharan Africa. All the major record companies have Latin offices in Miami, and dozens of Spanish-language magazines are based there. General Motors, Latin America's No. 2 automaker, moved its Latin headquarters from Sao Paulo to Miami two years ago. Disney moved its Latin American consumer-products office from Mexico City; Inter-Continental Hotels moved its base for the Americas down from...
...YORK -- With all the controversies over the role and effectiveness of UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS, one issue that has received scant attention, and that U.N. officials are loath to discuss, is the presence of AIDS among the peacekeeping forces. The militaries of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are known to have HIV infection rates as high as 80%, and many of these countries, which may receive a few hundred dollars a month for each soldier, send troops on peacekeeping missions. A U.N. official explains that "we do not discriminate between black, white or AIDS-infected people." But he goes...
...flood's menacing peculiarity. It is an anomaly in the Mississippi basin that it came in July, giving farmers less time to recover than previous inundations, which almost always came in late winter or early spring. Summers in the area are usually noted for searing heat and Saharan drought rather than for rains on which Noah's ark might float...
These experiences in the sub-Saharan region of Africa demonstrate vividly the poverty of the continent, but also the possibility of a better life as democracies emerge and people are able to realize benefits from free trade and improved health and food production. Unless human suffering is alleviated, the continent is threatened by a rejection of democracy and increasing conflicts, like those among the competing ethnic groups of Ethiopia, the nomadic Tuaregs and the skirmishing military powers in Liberia. These are the kinds of civil wars that are rarely addressed by the United Nations or even noticed in much...