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...bring the ballooning debt under control, she stopped using credit cards and made nominal payments on her accounts. "I thought if I sent them something, $10 or $20, they would leave me alone," she says. But she only fell further behind. Even in months when she didn't use the credit cards, the amount she owed rose because of late-payment penalties and interest charges. Before long, she needed to pay at least $300 a month just to stay even...
Unable to do so, she became increasingly short of cash and unable to pay her bills--rent, car, credit cards. She began alternating payments--the rent one month, credit cards the next, making a car payment after that. That didn't work either, and soon she was getting dunning letters and phone calls. One credit-card company threatened to attach her wages...
...Unable to defend itself against the rebels initially, the elected government had hired mercenaries to fight the rebels, and, in particular, to protect the diamond fields. Part of the mercenaries' price was that they wanted a slice of the diamond industry themselves as part of their payment. And that's something the West found objectionable. So part of the condition for foreign assistance through the U.N. and the World Bank was that the government had to get rid of the mercenaries. The problem is that once the mercenaries withdrew, the rebels quickly overran the diamond fields and that changed...
...Mississippi is the greatest freshwater coastal marshland in North America, a resplendently prolific nursery for fish, shellfish, furbearers and reptiles and a wintering haven for a third of North America's waterfowl. The saltwater invasion has cost the Cajun economy, rooted in fishing and trapping and hunting, dearly. But payment will soon be demanded farther north. Hydrologists are now proposing formerly unthinkable ideas--such as breaching the levees from New Orleans to the river's mouth--if only to spread enough silt to slow the Gulf's encroachment on the city. Even if that's done (it would probably cost...
...that after dropping by an adult learning center in a gritty west Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood and testing out his fearless, if primitive Spanish, Bush went around the corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor buy health insurance, make a down payment on a new home and build up personal savings. The price tag: a very un-Republican $42 billion over five years. "Our economy must also honor and reward the hard work of factory and field, of waiting tables and driving cabs," Bush told the largely Hispanic audience. "Not just enterprise...