Word: squalor
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...lunch. Don't shy away from institutional food; it usually doesn't bite back. And whatever you do, don't shirk your culinary duty by taking your son or daughter to a fancy restaraunt in the Square. This is the surest way to maintain a blissful oblivion concerning the squalor of college eating. Your children are what they eat, and as a parent, you have a right to know what they're becoming...
What all this requires is self-discipline on the part of the world's haves and increased assistance to the have-nots. Today a billion people live in a degree of squalor that forces them to deplete the environment without regard to its future. Similarly, their governments often are too crippled by international debt to afford the short-term costs of ecological prudence. Says Benedick: "Protecting the global environment is inextricably linked with eliminating poverty...
Those who stay behind dwell in a Latin version of Dickensian squalor. Managua is a succession of seedy shantytowns, abandoned buildings and lots where cows, goats and horses forage. Twice a week water is cut off, and rotating power blackouts add to the capital's desolation. In the countryside some farmers live well off their own land, while a few miles down the road naked children from a dusty village drink from and relieve themselves in the same brown stream...
...squalor, pure and simple, and Glennhated it. You could tell that by the way herefused to walk on the carpet in his bare feetbecause he was afraid of catching a disease. ButGlenn never let his revulsion of the way we livedaffect the way he dealt with those of us whocaused the mess. Instead, he just got even byplaying his Broadway show tapes after we had allgone to sleep...
Also fueling India's wider ambitions is the desire to alter the common perception, particularly in the West, that it remains a backward nation mired in superstition and squalor. In fact, alongside the impoverished land of beggars and cardboard shacks there has risen a high-tech, postindustrial state led by an army of self-confident and efficient engineers, scientists and military officers. In the southern city of Bangalore, the two exist side by side: women collect tree branches for firewood, while a short distance away, some of India's brightest technicians hunch over an IBM 3090 mainframe computer to design...