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...Among your 10 ideas why was there nothing about the planet's burgeoning population? I smiled two pages later at the advert depicting a family with four children. Could this signal why we're in the pickle we are, financially and environmentally? Clarissa Hughes, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...
...yellow digger, creaky and crusted with mud, sits in front of a crowd of about 200 people outside a little-used military facility in the Turkish town of Silopi. The digger's engine hums. In a minute it will roll forward, past the grieving relatives dressed in their Sunday best, past the chain-smoking lawyers in somber suits, past blank-faced sentries and a television broadcast van beaming pictures around the country, and head on into one of the most controversial issues in Turkey's murky recent history...
...that promise before, and is weakened after losing support in local elections last month. "To make this sense of progress stick, we need Kurdish identity to be constitutionally recognized," says lawyer Elci. "Otherwise it will never be secure." Pointing from the window of his cramped office to the dusty town beyond he says: "This is the farthest point from democracy in Turkey. But it will get here...
...even as Burmese friends piled up caveats as high as the spires of the tallest pagoda, I could sense an awakening political consciousness that excited them. A young man in a remote town confided that he and his friends had organized a study group to debate the merits of electoral politics. (One of the participants also runs a free class called The Secrets of Gmail: A Pre-Advanced Course.) In northern Burma, where minorities recall that ethnic-based parties came in second and third in the 1990 polls--the army's party finished fourth--insurgent groups encouraged to feud...
Sipping tea in another Burmese town, I listened as a companion recited his favorite line from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words had a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up Kennedy's challenge...