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AFGHANISTAN Troubles Heaped on Troubles As if the poor inhabitants of the war-ravaged and drought-stricken country didn't have enough to contend with, the very earth turned against Afghanistan last week. Two earthquakes, measuring between 5.0 and 6.1 on the Richter scale, caused widespread destruction in the northeast around Nahrin, killing up to 1,200 people. Though aftershocks continued for several days, troops and aid workers were able to deliver relief supplies of food and tents to the tens of thousands left homeless...
...Last week he promised sweeping social, economic and constitutional reforms, building on a package of land-reform measures passed last summer. But in the short term, the war continues to escalate. And while the eventual winner is unknown, the inevitable losers will be Nepal's 23 million, largely poverty-stricken citizens...
...event (actually two). I also like to see small countries, with populations one-tenth that of the United States, have their days in the sun for once. Many people in Croatia and Bulgaria do not have much to cheer about in their daily lives. Their countries are poverty-stricken. When a Croatian athlete can rise to the top of the world and compete at a level with Americans who have more money and often more opportunity, I will plead guilty for rooting for “the bad guys...
...expected to subsist mainly on an annual allowance doled out by the league. This year the stipend is $133,000 per team, which is supposed to help cover player salaries, food, equipment and travel for a 26-game schedule, plus play-offs. It doesn't go far. One poverty-stricken club in Shanxi province reportedly can't afford to feed its players meat during the season...
...Keaton. People tuning in to “Family Ties” repeats are nostalgic not merely for legwarmers and Watergate humor, but for the boy Fox once was. Alex’s eagerness to grow up is now steeped in tragic irony, as his real-life counterpart is stricken with Parkinson’s disease, an disorder that usually afflicts people decades older...