Word: third world
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...parents, kids are a roll of the DNA dice. Adoptive parents face greater risks, for their children carry a knapsack of genetic and cultural imponderables. Yet there are couples who heroically try to create a home, a family, a rich life for orphans from the U.S. and, increasingly, the Third World...
...forming on the margins. Much of the continent has turned into a battleground of contending dooms: AIDS and overpopulation, poverty, starvation, illiteracy, corruption, social breakdown, vanishing resources, overcrowded cities, drought, war and the homelessness of war's refugees. Africa has become the basket case of the planet, the "Third World of the Third World," a vast continent in free fall...
Americans are thinking more about their own problems as well. Says Herman Cohen, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: "What the Africans really have to worry about is not competition for our resources from the former Soviet Union but from Los Angeles and the Third World that lives...
...center had been infected but had not yet shown symptoms. Such outbreaks could have serious consequences: recurrent middle-ear infections can impair hearing, and pneumococcus can also cause meningitis and bacteremia, an infection of the blood that may spread to the joints, heart and even the brain. In the Third World, pneumococcus is a leading cause of pneumonia...
...social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York was their movie set, Madison Square Garden their all-star playground, the chic eatery Elaine's their kitchen. Central Park was their shared backyard. From their respective apartment windows on opposite sides of the park, they...