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...here. But most naturists don't talk much about the virtues of their lifestyle. And the clothed employees at the various shops and restaurants take their constant encounters with the unclothed in stride. Delphine, the receptionist at the Hotel Eve, even tells me that "naturists are more cool and less stressed than people in the textile world...
...their South Korean owners. Over the years, the DMZ has become a tourist attraction for both sides. From the polished-steel-and-granite peace palace on our side, we peered across the demarcation line to the opposite slope, a couple of hundred yards away, where, from a similar but less imposing structure, a party of North Korean sightseers gazed back...
...doesn't know or understand." She could try the route to the info superhighway that a lot of curious but cautious seniors are taking: Internet appliances, like the three shown below. Smaller than PCs and easier to use, these devices provide e-mail and basic Web surfing for less money--and without the hassle that is keeping many greatest-generation types offline...
...Saharan Africa so hard is that the public health system in many countries is inadequate to deal with even "conventional" disease, let alone a grinding juggernaut like AIDS. According to the World Bank, the region averages $34 per person annually in health-care spending--and far less in places like Nigeria and Kenya--compared with an average of $2,485 in developed countries like the U.S. Less than half the people in the area have access to clean water, and just over half of all children are vaccinated against diphtheria, polio and tetanus. The notion that African countries can somehow...
...these bad loans isn't the cost of writing them off. Rather it's that the borrowing countries are afflicted with nearly untreatable cases of what economists call "debt overhang," a fiscal disease by which loan repayments inhibit every sort of national economic activity. That makes the markets much less attractive to export-hungry U.S. companies. Debt relief, which at first blush looks like charity, is mostly a way to stimulate growth...