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From high on the hill in the riverside town of Wanxian, Gu Xiaoli looks out over the boat dock from her kitchen window and sighs. She is cooking a modest dinner of rice soup, pigs' feet and steamed buns. In the past two years, she, her husband and her son have all been laid off from textile factories in the town. With their combined pensions of $100 a month, they also have to support her 85-year-old father. Her biggest worry is for her son. After being laid off, he opened a restaurant that failed; then...
...amenities he lacked before. And now he is giving a banquet in the new hotel to celebrate the birth of his first son. Money is flowing into the town because of all the dam-construction work, and as he circulates among the tables with a bottle of rice liquor and good-luck eggs boiled in red dye, his guests are aglow with dreams for the future. He pauses to offer a toast: "I hope my son will have a happy life...
...political party in the world's most populous country. Still, the recent shift from having local government officials elected rather than appointed by the party, and the reduction of their powers, is a step in a democratic direction. "Party functionaries no longer control a family's access to rice or sugar or fertilizer, and that leads to greater freedom in other areas," says TIME correspondent Jay Branegan. "If you don't need the local party leader in order to have your grain, you don't have to toe the line as much...
...they were never systematically carried out. In Burma, Wa tribesmen stopped growing opium poppies altogether, but when an alternative-development program that had been promised was delayed two years, the tribesmen went back to poppies. Laos, which used to produce 3.5 tons of opium annually, recently switched to coffee, rice and chili farming under a U.N. pilot project. So far this year the Lao have cut opium production to a few hundred pounds. In Peru crop substitution has cut coca production 40%. "A million dollars," says Arlacchi, "can have 100 times the effect in Peru or Bolivia that...
TIME's Andrea Sachs sat down with DONNA RICE HUGHES (known to history as just plain old Donna Rice) at the booksellers' annual schmoozefest, BookExpo America, where Rice was promoting her forthcoming book, Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace. For the first time, Rice, an old hand on the political sex-scandal front, was persuaded to talk about the Lewinsky matter. Her advice to Monica? "What I would say to anyone is that there is hope, and there is a way to go through a scandal with dignity," said Rice, now married with two stepchildren. "Try to take...