Word: access
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Diplomats, he said, lack the means to do their job effectively. He said some foreign service officers do not even have access to e-mail...
...making peace, ordered his men to hold onto their weapons, and warned the U.N. troops who'd come to disarm them to keep their distance. Sankoh fired Bockarie late last year, but the commander fled to Liberia, where he began to organize a new insurgency that would ensure continued access by the RUF - and its Liberian backers - to the diamond fields. But Sankoh's own commitment to peace was equally dubious. Despite having signed the agreement authorizing their peacekeeping role, Sankoh warned in January that the U.N. "has no business in Sierra Leone." Yet despite these warning signs and continuing...
...only 5 percent of Africa's infected population are actually conscious of their HIV-positive status - which means they're not even seeking treatment - and many of the governments in the worst-hit areas have been slow to acknowledge the depth of the crisis. Still, even if easing the access to AIDS drugs in Africa initially benefits primarily the educated and middle class, it may play a decisive role in preventing the disease from destroying the people on whom the future of many African countries depend...
...course, do such potent variables as geography (coastline, access to rivers, ports), climate, religious heritage, luck and sponsorship by superpowers. Traditional explanations (imperialism, colonialism, racism, dependency) have passed out of fashion, if only because (true or not) they represent a protest without a program, a righteousness ultimately feckless...
Anyone campaigning for optimism runs the risk of sounding like Ronald Reagan in his famous fable of the Christmas pony in the manure pile. A person must have access to optimism - not often an available grace in areas of great poverty and disease (the African AIDS belt, for example). And it depends what the object of your optimism is. An optimist who hopes to start a flourishing small business is different from an optimist who hopes to blow himself to heaven by driving a car bomb into the Great Satan's military barracks...