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  • Do You Really Want To Help End Poverty In The U.s. And English-speaking Nations?
    By: Bob C. Cleckler | - We often see articles in newspapers or magazines about the shocking extent of poverty in America or some other English-speaking nation. But how often do the articles examine the cause of the poverty? I cannot remember ever seeing such an article. Many persons of influence -- celebrities, educators, and politicians -- bemoan the extent of poverty. Many of them want to help. Some of them actually do help, but the help is almost always something involving providing money or physical items to tempor ...
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  • Leveraging The Power Of Markets With Microfranchising
    By: Curtis Seare | - There has been growing interest lately in the use of market-based solutions to help alleviate poverty across the globe, especially as a result of the successes of the Acumen Fund. Although these kinds of solutions are no panacea, they have opened many opportunities for poverty relief and economic self reliance development that previous approaches (such as regulatory or simple charity) have not been able to accomplish. Market-based approaches have the ability to provide opportunities, change mi ...
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  • Why There's No Excuse For Poverty And How You Can Claim Your Greatest Asset
    By: Dr Barnsley Brown | - I remember someone complaining about how she lost her house because her 7-year Adjustable Rate Mortgage expired and the payment went up. The way this woman was talking, I assumed the payment increased at least a thousand dollars. Curious, I asked her, "Wow, how much did it go up?" and she replied, "One hundred dollars."

    She and her husband lost the house for one hundred dollars a month. Now there's just one word that comes to mind for this: Stupidity! For just one hundred dollars, ...

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  • High Energy Bills? Fuel Poverty? Hard To Heat Solid Wall Homes? - Help Is At Hand,
    By: Professor Michael Benfield PhD | - Climate Change & Heating Bills

    If you are worried about Climate change, turn down your heating ' or install more insulation in your home. This way you'll be helping to reduce up to 50% of the global warming caused by the CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions produced by burning fossil fuels for household energy.

    Everyone's heard of 'Global Warming'. But everyone may not know that that ordinary homes - our houses, flats, bungalows and apartments - cause up to 50% of this probl ...

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  • Reducing Poverty In Africa
    By: Regie Macalam | - Progress accounts of Africa's development are making a scene. Little by little, they are reducing poverty through organizational development. They are improving in different sectors one at a time. These changes are reversing the region's poor economic performance. Once a forgotten continent, now, Africa is the center of attraction. Countries were astound with the firmness they showed against the appalling strike of the global financial crisis.

    Poverty is a like a worldly dirt that A ...

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  • Ending Global Poverty: It Is No Easy Job.
    By: TLoop | - When you think of global poverty what first comes to mind? More often than not you may be thinking of the many ways you can help, but don't know exactly what you can do. Yes, is can seem like a daunting task, but it's important to remember that you need to put one foot in front of the other in order to make any change. Although there are no easy solutions, there are a variety of changes that can be made to better assist individuals who need help.

    Of the many ways to help end global ...

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  • Fannie And Freddie Mac Programs Help Struggling Homeowners
    By: Ki Gray | - In March of this year, the Obama Administration authorized a new federal program to help stabilize the housing industry. The feds poured a mere $75 billion into the Making Home Affordable (MHA) mortgage program intended to avert further foreclosures, assist responsible home owners in retaining their homes and stabilize the nation's communities.

    Home Affordable Refinancing Program (HARP) and Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) are the two initiatives under the umbrella of ...

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  • Temporary Assistance From Federal Government Towards Low Income Groups
    By: John Goldman | - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program has been designed propounding with an ability to garner tribal population with power to attain self-sufficiency.

    Under the new Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 the Emergency Assistance (EA) program, the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) were repealed for empowering American Indian Tribes to conduct their own TANF ...

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  • Understanding The Health Care Debate Part 3
    By: William Stephenson | - One possible solution to respond to the problems would be a proposal by The Hamilton Project. The Hamilton Project details sound solutions for evolving beyond traditional employer-sponsored health insurance. The main tenants of their proposal include:

    A. State established insurance exchanges
    B. Shift employers traditional role as sponsor to facilitator of coverage
    C. Reform of the tax laws to more fairly handle the needs of our needy

    A. A state insur ...

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  • Understanding The Health Care Debate Part 2
    By: William Stephenson | - The problems associated with the exploding costs of health care in the United States are many. First and most importantly, costs are forcing people to choose between cheaper insurance plans that could place a family in jeopardy with the advent of a disastrous illness, while other families are choosing not to insure at all.

    The worst position is not a choice at all, but for the estimated 7 million uninsured in the United States that simply cant afford insurance because of their cir ...

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  • Understanding The Health Care Debate Part 1
    By: William Stephenson | - Any serious discussion of health care reform must begin with serious data. The often pronounced number of the uninsured being at 47 million in the United States just doesnt measure up in any serious way. When you start with the Census Bureaus latest statistics from their Current Population Survey of 2007, we find that 45.7 million people were without health insurance. A small correction, but hold on for the rest. Of that 45.7 million, 18 million have incomes over $50,000 a year and presumably ca ...
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  • Gearing Up For Growth - Reducing Poverty Part One
    By: Lars Stork | - In 2008 The African continent was seeing its strongest economic growth since the 1970s. 15 African countries entered a second decade in which they posted strong annual economic growth rate of above 5%. Despite strong economic performance, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the only region not on track for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. In 2009 recession has hit Sub-Saharan Africa, export demand is collapsing and commodity prices- in particular those of oil and base metals-under pres ...
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  • Low Income Smokers Are Unable To Afford Yet Another Program
    By: Aydan Corkern | - It seems like there is another new way to quit smoking cigarettes being advertised to the public on a pretty regular basis. It is a boom that has taken over the networks of cable television and is making front page news on a lot of your local papers being distributed. This is becoming a market that has no end in sight when it comes to smoking cigarettes, because 9 out of 10 smokers say they want to quit for good. There is about 13 of all Americans that smoke on a daily basis. This is a staggerin ...
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  • How To Be Honest In Business And Still Have Success
    By: Ken McDougal Jr. | - Where do I begin? It seems like more and more you hear people say today that in order to really succeed in business, you have to lie. That couldnt be any further from the truth. People lie for all kinds of reasons. Lets look at some of them.

    People lie because they are insecure
    People lie because they are hiding something
    People lie because they are greedy and selfish
    People lie out of fear
    People ...

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  • The Biggest Lie The Gurus Have Fed You For Years!"'
    By: Ken McDougal Jr. | - If you have been on the internet for any length of time and you have been struggling to actually make a decent living from home, then you have come to realize one very important fact. That fact is, if you are going to build a successful money making business from home you first have to accept the fact that a home business has to treated like a real business and not a hobby. Its not a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. You dont just put up a website and poof you make mil ...
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  • Make Money With Youtube...the Right Way
    By: Ken McDougal Jr. | - Did you know that there is a right way and a wrong way to make money with YouTube. Most people today are facing serious economic issues and our country is looking at the possibility of economic collapse. Yet there is hope. Video marketing is one of the most effective ways of getting the message of your product or business opportunity out there for millions to see. Using YouTube can be a very powerful way of accomplishing this..if it is done correctly.

    Allot of people think that g ...

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  • The Degrading Paradox Of Welfare
    By: Andrew Cort | - When someone speaks out against Welfare, some listeners become indignant and suspect an appalling lack of caring, a lack of charity and humanity. But shallow sentimentality is no substitute for intelligent policies and genuine compassion, and the fact is that our current welfare system treats its recipients - who are mostly black -- as if they were children, as if they were unable to understand the basic facts of a market economy, and as if they were unable to rise above a system of fantastic ex ...
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  • Overcoming Fear - Your Biggest Challenge
    By: Mario Anthony Salvi | - One of the biggest challenges we confront on a daily basis is fear. It seems as soon as we begin to move our lives forward to attain our dreams, fear reveals itself. The sudden nature of its appearance only serves to make us even more terrified and pessimistic.

    The challenge of fear isn't always the same. Depending on what it is we want, or want to achieve, there are many types of fear we may experience: fear of commitment, of poverty, of rejection or of change, fear of success an ...

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  • Five Minutes To Financial Freedom? Yes, It Can Be Done, Here Is How
    By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - If you are sceptical about bold claims like the above I don't blame you. You are probably wondering how anyone can get themselves out of a financial mess which probably took many years to get into? Your scepticism is justified, but wrong.

    Let me explain: When you do not make headway with financial issues it is not so much due to outside circumstances that are out of your control, but something you are doing inside of your head that makes you miss opportunities or go for the wrong ...

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  • Volunteer Abroad Peru Cusco Lima Machu Picchu
    By: A Broader View Volunteers Corp | - Volunteer Abroad in Peru: The third largest country in South America, it shares borders with Ecuador, Columbia, Brazil, Bolivia and also Chile. A large mountainous country on the Pacific coast of South America, Peru offers a range of choices for a visitor.

    The Inca Empire, with Lake Titiaca, Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the Andes, Amazonian rainforests, cloud people, coastal wildlife preserves and cosmopolitan cities are just some reasons to visit Peru.

    Although in recen ...

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  • A School Fundraiser That Will Change The World
    By: Amie Nelson | - Make a list of everything you can buy today with one dollar. Short list, isn't it? Yet more than 3 billion people in the world exist on less than a dollar a day.

    Two mothers were so concerned by this reality they created Global Goods Partners - a nonprofit organization that ensures income from goods made in the developing world is received directly by those who produced them. Their model is unique, as it gives women from disadvantaged regions access to new markets through school ...

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  • Poverty In Africa
    By: Jeff Stats | - Poverty is a scary word for a lot of people. It resembles a disease which gets into every organ and kills it from inside. There is an easy cure to this illness-money, but in most cases it's an unreachable dream. There are poor people in every country in the world; however the extent of their poverty varies greatly from country to country. Taking for instance Switzerland with its profits and per capita earning, even assuming that there is a needy class of people, it is obvious that they have ...
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  • The Minimum Wage Trap
    By: mikey777 | - The sad truth: You can hold a high school diploma and still only make minimum wage. Twelve years of hard work equals $5.85 an hour; the Federal governments idea of a cruel joke. A person making minimum wage earns $12,168 per year working 40 hours a week, which according to the powers that be, is below poverty level in most areas.

    Unless you live at home, have no children and are unmarried it is nearly impossible to survive on such low wages. Most of us pay at least $7,000 per y ...

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  • Alleviating Poverty In Africa
    By: Mike Magnolia. | - It has been figured that more than 3 quarters of the world's goods are answered for by a fifth of the world's population - and this digit is only climbing due to the rising breach between the two ends of the global economic spectrum.

    The Situation in Africa

    Education: The amount of African communities with the access to acceptable facilities and resources to get an education is tiny, and education is one of the basic building blocks towards a better future. Educatio ...

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  • Rising Uk Energy Prices Compound Fuel Poverty Problems
    By: Andrew Leech | - More and more British households are spending a higher percentage of their income on energy costs. According to Tony Lodge of the Bow Group, research shows that the number of households categorised as being in fuel poverty is expected to have almost doubled in the past four years, up from 2 million to over 4 million. Then there is severe fuel poverty, which refers to spending more than 15% of total household income on fuel.

    Using the UK Government's own fuel poverty criteria ...

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  • The Journey To Living Abundantly - Obstacles To Living In Abundance
    By: Carmellita Brown | - The journey to living in abundance is filled with infinite possibilities. However, in many cases for people who desperately want to live in abundance, there may be stumbling blocks or obstacles which cloud your ability to see these possibilities.

    So the question for those who are not manifesting their true desires and living in abundance is...am I living in complacency because I have a fear of abundance? This may sound outrageous because the question then becomes...who would no ...

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  • Help A Child: You Might Want Christian Charity Donations
    By: Ben Pate | - We have all viewed the heart wrenching commercials asking us to sponsor a needy child. We have all heard about child poverty in India , Latin America and other third world countries. Some individuals may want more information about sponsoring a child in need before handing in their hard earned money. This overview can be helpful.

    There are religion-based as well as secular charities to choose from for giving donations. There are child charity for many major religions of the world wh ...

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  • Donate To A Child: Be Sure To Find Out Whether You Can Pick A Particular Country
    By: Ben Pate | - A child in need has a special ability to affect our emotions. Nearly everyone has been impacted by television ads that depict sad images, such as child poverty in El Salvador , in order to encourage us to sponsor a child . Many people do decide to sponsor a child after seeing an ad, but some people want to know more about sponsorship programs before they commit themselves to one. If you are one of them, this overview is perfect for you.

    Depending on your own beliefs, you may decide ...

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  • Help A Child: Be Sure To Find Out If You Can Pick A Particular Country, Such As Peru
    By: Ben Pate | - There isn't anything that prompts a person to action as much as seeing a destitute child. The ads on TV showing child poverty in Peru or other third-world countries push us to sponsor a child, and many people find themselves looking for the phone before the commercial is even over. However, others like to mull over their decision to give and want to know more about sponsoring a child.

    It is up to each person whether they want a charity associated with an established religion or one ...

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  • How Many Fire Hydrants Do You See?
    By: Michael A. Verdicchio | - I did this silly exercise once. I did it because I knew it would work and I thought it would be a good example to share with others. But, I didn't want to share it until I had personally tried it. So, I tried it, and I have shared it on occasion.

    This exercise shows very vividly how our minds work. Some refer to this process as,"The Law of Attraction." Now, the "Law of Attraction" also has other names like, The Law of Magnetism, or, The Law of Vibration. But whatever people ...

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  • When Will A Third World Nation Show A Success Like Vegas?
    By: Pablo Edronkin | - When the whole modern-day dynamics of Las Vegas began there was almost nothing there to begin with: it was a forgotten town filled with dust and almost nothing else. Now Las Vegas is one of the most important tourist destinations in the United States and arguably, in the whole world. In just half a century, the shabby town emerged from the dust and became a major city living in glory.

    Meanwhile, all sorts of banana-republic leaders all across the third world promised to scores of ...

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  • The Role Of Gross Income In The Food Stamp Program
    By: Andrew Schwartz | - For the people who desire to participate in The Food Stamp Program are very important rates of their gross and net incomes. Gross income is the sum of net income and some dedications. These dedications include definite deductions and namely: a deduction for part of any income, which was earned in the labor market, a deduction for housing outgoings, a standard deduction of course and some others. Households usually have about 2,000 dollars of such assets as accounts (saving/checking), cash, and s ...
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  • Calcutta Third Largest City In India
    By: Douglas Scott | - Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. The city has a population of almost 11 million, with an extended metropolitan population of over 14 million, making it the third largest urban agglomeration and the third largest city in India.

    Calcutta is well known for the poverty to be found on its streets, but seeing it for real can still come as a shock to visitors to the city. Its important that ...

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  • Who Is Really To Blame?
    By: Michael A. Verdicchio | - There are people today who have become real experts at blaming everyone and everything for their problems. They have mastered "The Blame Method." It is a sad way to live because they never see the real cause of their problems.

    These blamers get up every morning and quickly put on their "Victim" sweatshirt. Out the door the head, prepared to go through another day expecting to be victimized. They spend the day pointing their fingers at the economy, the government, their boss, ot ...

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  • Comedy & Laughter To Highlight Everyday Middle Eastern & Arab Problems !
    By: http://www.KarKarToon.com | - Comedy & Laughter to Highlight Everyday Middle Eastern & Arab Problems

    More than just entertaining the average visitor, KarKarToon.com attempts to put the Arab World's harsh REALITY into clear perspective. Through simple but genuine humor: "A Sarcastic Insight into the Arab World"

    Modern day Middle Eastern & Arab media concentrates on portraying society in an illusionary and fabricated, yet tedious manner. They have built the tendency of basing their ever so typic ...

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  • All Of It
    By: Kurt Green | - Last year I attended a conference called the Mindset Mentoring Conference, where a gentleman named Arch Bonnema spoke. He was talking about what God has taught him about giving. Mr. Bonnema and his wife felt the Lord lead them to increase their monthly giving and time substantially. They had just started a new business, and it wasn't the best idea to give more according to the worlds standards. They made the commitment to give anyway. Over the next five years, they went through their entire ...
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  • Poverty
    By: Michael A. Verdicchio | - The cause of poverty is not a lack of money. Does that statement shock you? It's true. A lack of money may be an effect of poverty, but it is not the cause of poverty.

    The cause of poverty is poverty thinking. Poverty comes from poverty beliefs and poverty attitudes; it comes from a poverty mindset.

    Here's another statement that might shake you. Not having money does not mean you're impoverished. Let me explain. Suppose your checkbook gets all the way to zero. ...

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  • South African Photos - The Story Depends On Which Side Of The Fence You Are On
    By: Anand R | - South Africa has witnessed a significantly different evolution from other nations within the continent due to two major factors. The first being, immigration from Europe and the second, the strategic importance of the Cape Sea Route. Mainly as a result of immigration, South Africa is a very racially diverse nation. It boasts of the largest population of Colored people (mixed racial background), whites, and Indian communities in Africa. Negro South Africans account for slightly less than 80% of t ...
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  • The Key To Your Fears And Beating Them
    By: Robert Hunt | - We are the architects of our lives and our destiny. Our lives do not hold joy that was not first born in our minds and imagination. Our circumstances are then outwardly crystallized through the power of our thoughts. Unhappiness, illness and failure are born from fear and negative thinking.

    Fear is born out of the belief that we do not control our destiny. Don't we all at some point fear there will never be enough money for retirement, or to buy a home or make the next months rent ...

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  • Jesus Never Preached Poverty
    By: Rob Marshall | - A recent Time magazine cover had a picture of a Rolls Royce with a cross as the hood ornament. The headline read: "Does God Want You To Be Rich?" The article talked about a trend that is developing within the American church to preach what some call the "Prosperity Gospel."

    I sometimes wonder what all the controversy is about. I remember going to a meeting with some other Christians and listening to the preacher talk about God's blessings. After the event was over, one of the ...

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  • 7 Tips On How To Become Rich
    By: Aine Callan | - 1. Self confidence
    Rich people have an innate confidence and faith in the knowledge that they are destined to be rich. They have the determination, drive and energy to keep going until they reach their goals and nothing will deter them. Giving up is not an option for rich people.

    2. Prioritising their time
    Rich people protect their time. They value it and don't waste it on meaningless pursuits, such as watching mindless television or wasting valuable time slee ...

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  • Simple Solutions To Global Problems? "" Tai Chi & Qigong
    By: Bill Douglas | - Copyright 2006 Bill Douglas

    According to modern medical research between 70 and 85% of all illness leading people to doctors is caused by stress (Kaiser Permenente twenty year study). The United States annual health care costs exceed one-trillion dollars each year. This means that effective stress management techniques, if provided to people en masse through education, business, healthcare, etc. in an aggressive national campaign to train our citizens in such techniques, could s ...

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  • Ending Poverty Consciousness
    By: Jeanie Marshall | - Copyright 2006 Marshall House

    Definition number 1 of "poverty" in the American Heritage Dictionary is: "The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts." It is further defined as "deficiency in amount; scantiness; unproductiveness; infertility."

    By "poverty consciousness" I mean the set of attitudes and beliefs and feelings and values associated with material lack or fear of material lack. Poverty consciousness equals a belief in l ...

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  • Mumbai (bombay), India - Getting In Touch With Your Fellow Man
    By: Nomad Rick | - India is one of the most populous nations in the world. The city of Mumbai, better known as Bombay, carries this notion to ridiculous ends.

    Mumbai - Bombay

    Mumbai is located on the west coast of India and is a sight to be seen. Until 1997, the city was known as Bombay, but the government for some esoteric reason changed the name. Mumbai was the name used by locals for years and refers to a local goddess. Most of the city buildings and agencies still incorporat ...

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  • India - The Country From Another Planet
    By: Nomad Rick | - I am firmly convinced the country of India was transplanted from another planet. You will find no other place like it on this world.

    India

    India is a country where you will see everything you can imagine. More importantly, everything you will see will be intense. You will not see a beggar, you will see millions of them. You will not see a beautiful beach, you will see the most beautiful beaches in the world. Places of wealth are so over the top youll be stunned. ...

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  • How The Poor Were Lost.
    By: Vincent Wilmot | - Copyright 2006 Vincent Wilmot

    When the poor were the majority.

    The poor in developed countries like the USA and UK are now a minority, though up to maybe the 1950s or 1960s they had been a majority.

    While the poor were a majority their main problems were simply economic poverty and economic exploitation. Government bodies manned by the upper and middle classes understood this sufficiently to be able to handle the poor with some appropriateness, ...

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  • Ode To India
    By: Sramana Mitra | - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi could not have imagined connecting with his ardent disciple George Harrison on a cellular phone. He would have relied on telepathy or some other transcendental power to listen to Jai Gurudeva ... with Harrissons guitar strumming along.

    Times have changed.

    A $2 Billion Indian mobile handset market is set to grow by over 60% in two years. Pretty dramatic. Nokia has 59% market share of the 60 Million user base. Cellular networks cover onl ...

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