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...nations have thrived in spite of tremendous adversity. Although nestled in one of the world’s most volatile regions, Ghana has remained stable and democratic. But for most Africans, the Ghana model is a distant beacon of hope. It remains the exception, with political, economic and social turmoil the norm. Fortunately, America is in a great position to help Africa recover. Sadly, we have done very little...
...AIDS and diamonds fuel Africa’s turmoil. Without much effort or expense, America can mitigate the impact of all three. There is a significant possibility that those diamonds in your jewelry came from a cave in Sierra Leone, and were picked by a seven-year-old girl working as a slave to some warlord who then exchanged those diamonds for machine guns. The “blood diamond” trade that links Sierra Leonean children with American consumers is responsible for fueling a war that probably would have fizzled out five years...
...course, the World Cup arrives in Asia at a time of intense turmoil. While U.S., British and German forces hunt the remnants of al-Qaeda elsewhere in Asia, their football teams will duke it out in the Cup against Muslim countries such as Senegal and Saudi Arabia. Although each host country has pronounced itself ready for anything from bioterrorism to drunken Brits, the prospect of calamity lingers. "Our forces are trained for all kinds of attacks," says Kim Kwang Soo of Korea's National Police Agency Planning Group. To emphasize the point, Korean police have adopted the inspiring slogan "Orderly...
...angst over energy, the movie is much like its hero--not the dashing crime fighter in a red-and-black bodysuit but the introspective nerd who both endears and exasperates. Perhaps that's artistically appropriate, for Spider-Man is about the awkward process of becoming, of somehow surviving teen turmoil to turn into, as Peter's saintly Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson) tells him, "the man you're going to be for the rest of your life." Why shouldn't there be growing pains in the Spider-Man movie? Just as Peter's transformation is a process of trial and error...
When the flames of turmoil and hatred have consumed the idyllic homeland of your past, the act of remembering can be an act of pain. For Sudha Koul, a native of wounded Kashmir, memory is all that remains?the memory of magical food, dense family love and the knowledge, once shared by the disputed province's Hindus and Muslims alike, that "we were all Kashmiris and we lived in the most wonderful place on earth...