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...helped Rickenbacker secure her loan is part of a worldwide effort to use "microlending" to provide credit to people without collateral. Its roots lie not in a U.S. university, boardroom or foundation but thousands of miles away in, of all places, the villages of Bangladesh. Development officers in the Third World have found that self-employment, backed by training and access to credit, can be a path out of poverty...
...country that is bound to lead should not have cities whose centers look like Third World slums or sections of Beirut. It should not have a lackluster educational system or an infrastructure that is falling apart. It should not have people being turned away by hospitals because they lack insurance, or dying in the street of drug overdoses, or becoming victims of random crime because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...third: Does AALARM, which apparently is attempting to counter the pink triangle with its blue squares, understand the genocide for which the pink triangle stands? The Nazi regime branded gays with the pink triangle in the death camps of World War II, just as it branded other minorities with similar symbols: Jews wore the yellow star; lesbians, Gypsies, and prostitutes wore the black triangle; political dissidents wore the red triangle...
...Iraq vs. the world. Twenty-four countries have sent powerful armies, fleets and air squadrons to confront a nation of 17 million people. If anyone needed proof that the days of old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy are gone, that should fill the bill. Iraq, along with many other Third World countries, has acquired such sophisticated, destructive armaments that even a superpower feels more comfortable about standing up to Baghdad with the help of allies...
TREND TRACKING by Gerald Celente, with Tom Milton (Wiley; $24.95). Far better than the best-selling Megatrends, this analysis of current economic, social and political conditions foresees disgruntled voters flocking to a third party, a return to the idealism of the '60s and career opportunities in such fields as education, solar energy and marine biology. But avoid cookie franchises. The world, say the authors, "doesn't need a new chocolate chip cookie...