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Taiwan's main effort is built on sharing its own hard-won know-how in intensive rice and vegetable cultivation. In the Ivory Coast, for example, Chinese experts have managed to increase rice output tenfold per annum in their pilot plots. But technical help is also extended in fisheries, engineering, medicine and peanut-oil production...
...artillery to catch up. Such tactics, or at least the attitude behind them, are not confined to Nigeria's federal troops; they are commonplace with most African armies. Moreover, federal commanders have built up an army to match the scale of their weapons orders ?almost a tenfold increase on their 8,000 regulars. Inevitably, the volunteers included unemployed youths and street-corner thugs who planned to serve most of their hitch looting towns and shaking down civilians. They also included a share of vengeful Northern tribalists eager to settle old scores with the Ibo tribe. The songs they chanted...
...first steps as Director of the Center. Each patient is now given an appointment with the doctor of his choice, and to insure that they'll continue to come to the Center, patients are given new appointments before they leave. An attitude of "We care" has resulted in a tenfold growth in the number of mothers and children being seen...
...piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have been caught, rice molders unharvested. In Soc Trang, the cost of food has risen 30%; in Vinh Long, the price of rice has soared tenfold...
...material rise is only part of the story. There have been cultural gains as well. With paperbacks in every drugstore, reading has soared. Thirty thousand titles were published last year, a far cry from the limited book list of 1917. Magazine circulation has multiplied tenfold in 50 years; each month, an estimated 1.2 billion copies of 650 magazines flow out to the farthest corners of the country. Education's reach has lengthened immensely. Early in the century, perhaps 4% of young Americans between 18 and 21 were in colleges and universities; now, roughly 45% are. Last year colleges conferred...