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...loading, critics charge, has caused more breakdowns. (Kumar denies this.) Older carriages can be dirty, shabby and full of cockroaches - and that's in upper class. "If our carriage, which is the best on the train, is not up to the world standard, what is the scenario of the poor man?" asks A. Ravindran, an officer in the Indian Air Force and one of the 18 million Indians riding a train on the day I met him in the air-conditioned carriage we shared. "There is still scope for improvement." Some policymakers would like to privatize the train system - though...
...geologic processes that make this wealth possible also bedevil Indonesia with disasters like the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 160,000 people in Sumatra. Lusi is unlike any previous disaster, however. Unfolding in implacable slow motion, it has confounded Indonesian engineers and mystics alike. The mostly poor villagers who have lost homes and livelihoods to the mud complain that the response to the unfolding disaster has been equally sluggardly - a symptom, perhaps, of the fault lines in Indonesian society's own unsettled foundations...
...prepare the foundation for unification" of the peninsula. But that, as everyone knows, is easier said than done. It is perfectly true that nothing lasts forever and that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many in the South, with a very shrewd appreciation of the likely costs of unification, dread a collapse of the North - and that Kim has shown himself able...
...been instructed to wait. We'd been on North Korean soil for all of 20 minutes, and already the handlers were frantic. "Please, we are all your friends here," one beseeched the mob, "but you must move back behind the yellow line." Ignored and increasingly flustered, the poor guy then blurted out one of the other foreign words he knew - one that might have betrayed what he was really thinking. "Au revoir!" he bellowed...
...FOOD 49% Increase this year in the cost of basic staples in Africa, according to the World Food Programme (WFP), as food prices worldwide soar 90% WFP estimate for how much of their income the global poor - those earning less than 50 cents a day - already spend on food...