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...Tourism is a sort of chemotherapy," says historian Juan Antonio Blanco, director of a new private think tank. "You have cancer and it's the only possible cure, but it might kill you before the cancer does." The inequality, the privileges derived from separating the foreigner from his dollar, he says, "could prove more socially disruptive than the bad shape of the economy...
...when demand for consumer items -- everything from sports equipment to kitchen appliances -- is rising in Asian nations that have long given priority to savings over spending. "With Asia growing through the creation of domestic demand, we can jump in," says Lawrence Chimerine of the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank in Washington...
...agenda -- war and atrocity -- is still pursued, although with less candor about the pleasure involved: some tribal or nationalist rationale ("Greater Serbia!") is proclaimed. Even after the cold war has ended as big-battle war seems to have become extinct -- the Gulf War perhaps a last set piece of tank warfare -- parvenu nations tinker in their basements with homemade nukes. Even more ominous is the global inundation of handy conventional weapons, a planetary democratization of firepower trickling down to Third World villages and the hip pockets of American schoolchildren...