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Rapid economic growth and opening its markets to the outside world have taken a sad but predictable toll on the country's traditional values. Police estimate there are 50,000 prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City, more than in 1975. Drug addiction is a growing problem. That in turn is boosting petty crime. Dozens of pickpockets, beggars and touts prey on unsuspecting foreigners in the square in front of city hall, within the gaze of an avuncular statue of Ho Chi Minh. Says a local official: "This is the price we must pay in order to leave our impoverished state...
...become a statistic in the worst epidemic of valley fever ever recorded. From 1986 to 1990, doctors reported an average of 450 cases a year to state authorities. In 1991 the number nearly tripled, to 1,208. Last year it soared to 4,54l, with an estimated death toll exceeding...
...MEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TOLL...
...crisis in India since the religious massacres that followed independence in 1947. Muslim and Hindu mobs armed with knives, hatchets and fire bombs attacked each other's houses of worship, homes and people in Bombay, Calcutta and other cities. A semiofficial death count topped 1,000, though the true toll was believed to be much higher. Muslim mobs burned Hindu temples and homes in the neighboring, predominantly Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh; more than 30 people were killed in Pakistan. Even in far-off Britain, 12 Hindu temples were torched...
Karan, fighting the constant deadlines, sometimes wonders what there is to envy. "I do love the ability I have to create something from nothing. What I hate is the pressure, the toll it takes on my physical being. Do I have to pay this price to do something I love?" The answer is yes, and she knows...