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...Sachs' new book, The End of Poverty, and awareness of the need to help Africa [March 14] caused a mix of several emotions in my mind, chief of which I identified as hope. I am encouraged that enlightened and progressive leaders in the developed world agree that the main obstacles to Africa's development are not solely or even fundamentally corruption and misrule. With a lot of commitment and doggedness, Africa will stand on its own feet, and posterity will have this generation to thank for it. Olumuyiwa E. Adepitan Gusau, Nigeria Can poverty in Africa be ended? Of course...
...work in progress (60 buildings have been completed and 20 are under construction), but tourists will find plenty to see, including cutting-edge architecture, cinemas, caf?s, galleries and craft shops. More important, it's a blissful change from the heavy atmosphere that hangs over the military outposts lining the main highway. "We will invite North Korea to host simultaneous cultural events," says Heyri spokesman Yoon Sung Taek. "Celebrating the arts creates harmony...
...main restaurant, Ikan Ikan, is housed in a recreation of a limas, or traditional Malay home, and serves fresh seafood alongside Mediterranean pastas, bouillabaisse and linguine. Serai (meaning lemongrass) is the hotel's other dining option and works rather better, with a repertoire of Indian, Chinese and Malay dishes. If you overindulge, the spa offers body wraps, steam rooms and herbal baths. The urut melayu?a traditional Malay massage?is a specialty, as is the Earthlight Ritual, which features a ginger scrub and a massage with heated jade, obsidian and other stones. Not quite as soothing?but not bad considering...
...Then I suddenly see the bomb craters on both sides of the dike--gaping holes, some 10 meters across and eight meters deep. The crater bottoms, I am told, are two meters below sea level. The crater that had severed the dike is almost filled in again, but the main worry is the bombs that have fallen on the sides of the dike. They cause earthquakes that shatter the dike's foundation and make deep cracks that zigzag up the sides. Antipersonnel bombs have also been used; they enter the dike on an angle, lodging underneath and exploding later. This...
...curricular review is the other main weapon in the limited arsenal of the administration. The freshman seminar program has been expanded, and Summers and University Provost Steven E. Hyman have both taught seminars...