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Within months of the collapse of communism in 1989, hideous hybrid organizations including among their numbers newly unemployed secret policemen - together with the likes of Olympic wrestlers and weightlifters - seized effective control of former Warsaw Pact states like Bulgaria. What began as muscle-bound gangs, running the streets of Sofia and other cities, quickly graduated into networks that, for example, become the major importers of stolen cars from Western Europe...
...Gary Busch, an American businessman who worked in Russia during the turbulent 1990s. "They were essential for the free market." The gangs of Sofia, Moscow and Prague were the midwives of capitalism. In Russia, the new entrepreneurs - or oligarchs, as they were called - could use their guile to seize control of Russia's vast energy and metallurgical sectors, building empires worth billions of dollars, while the living standards of ordinary Russians plummeted...
...Fritzls' vulnerabilities hardly stop there. The immune system, like the brain, requires stimulation to develop. Carol Baker, an infectious-disease specialist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says even a bout of the flu could prove serious as the Fritzls may never have encountered the virus that causes it. Baker says their health depends now on prompt vaccinations and careful monitoring. If treated properly, she adds, "biologically, they can be restored...
...ballroom danced in Swaziland, camped with crocodiles and hippopotamuses in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, and worked as a peer mentor in a Jamaican HIV orphanage. Her interest in global health and development, which has taken her to the Chinese Center for Disease Control in the past, will bring her to the Dominican Republic and Sierra Leone this summer. For Amy T. Wu ’09, living and breathing the developing world is the only way to truly understand the “global economy.” Wu is not alone in wanting to study and work...
Seoh Jae-jean, Director for NK Studies Division at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, also believes that Pyongyang's recent "crackdown on black markets" has exacerbated shortages. "If they leave people alone, people will find ways to survive with agility and flexibility. The government's attempt to control the private market is making matters worse," he says. But leaving people in his own country alone has never been Kim Jong Il's strong suit. Letting them suffer and, in the past, starve to death, has been his inclination. Will 2008 be different? With Stephen Kim/Seoul