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Before you mail another check to Save the Children or join the Peace Corps, read this book. Michael Maren shows that the international aid industry is a big business more concerned with winning its next big government contract than helping needy people. The problem isn't a lack of charity missions in the Third World, but that the best intentions of these idealists are often inadvertently destructive, thanks to a deadly combination of their naiveté and the willingness of native elites to exploit them. Maren spent many years in Africa living this life. This is a splendid, literate, muckraking memoir of his experiences..
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Drawing upon conversations with addicts as well as experts in the gay community and at drug treatment centers, journalist Frank Sanello examines how crystal-meth abuse is reaching epidemic levels among gay men, and how almost one-third of the new cases of HIV are caused by the decreased mental capacity associated with crystal. Tweakers get a quick, cheap high, an exhilarating loss of inhibition and increased stamina at the price of permanent behavioral changes, brain damage and death.

Frank Sanello is a Los Angeles-based journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and the New York Times Syndicate. He is the author of Opium Wars, The Knights Templar and To Kill a King.

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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 2891 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Environmentalists are fighting to prevent MAXXAM Group Inc. from ravaging Headwaters Forest in Humboldt County, CA. The forest is the largest unprotected redwood forest in the world. Environmentalists and community activists are counting on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) to stop MAXXAM. The FDIC has $548 million in outstanding claims against United Savings Assn. of Texas F.S.B., a failed savings and loan controlled by MAXXAM. For his part, MAXXAM CEO Charles Hurwitz threatened to sell the forest if the federal government refuses to pay him $600 million in cash for the redwoods.

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Title: Ravaging the redwoods: Charles Hurwitz, Michael Milken and the cost of greed. (Plundering the Planet: Full Speed Ahead)
Author: Ned Daly
Publication:Multinational Monitor (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: Essential Information, Inc.
Volume: v15 Issue: n9 Page: p11(4)

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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3082 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A number of powerful businessmen, including billionaire speculator George Soros, and policy makers are criticizing the work of the International Monetary Fund in Asia. They have observed that IMF policies, which it imposed on Asian countries that include Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea, have lead their economies to stagnate or decline. Thus, they consider that the Fund's conservative strategy is threatening the stability of the world economy.

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Title: Ravaging the poor: IMF indicted by its own data. (International Monetary Fund)
Author: Gabriel Kolko
Publication:Multinational Monitor (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1998
Publisher: Essential Information, Inc.
Volume: v19 Issue: n6 Page: p20(4)

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2007. The length of the article is 3457 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Once there was a mountain: ravaging West Virginia for "clean coal".(MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL)
Author: Jim Motavalli
Publication:E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18 Issue: 6 Page: 34(6)

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Two worlds collide in the beginning of this epic tale and shattering war of annihilation Hostile invaders of gigantic proportions and their powerful fiery allies have discovered an arcane gateway into the rich and resourceful planet of Atlas. The powerful Romanesque human Eastern Suleric Empire has its eyes and armies locked on expansion of lands to the east, while a dire threat evolves in the west. A new distinctive group of special servants who secretly operate on behalf of the Suleric Empire is hastily assembled to track down the sinister renegade wizard, Recna the Wild. Sir Roak Olidberg, a charitable Holy Suleric Knight, leads the group, supported by two very talented and odd wizards, a devout Priestess of Suleria with neurotic tendencies, and four brave warriors who are so conflicted with rage they might easily attack each other. Unknown to them or their superiors, who have unwittingly sent them on a suicide mission, the invading armies of Flame giants spill into the western kingdom of Car'nehge, causing great devastation. With their ability to bring forth hot fire, they burn cities, defeat the goblin warlords, subjugate the population and embark on their greedy crusade of blazing destruction toward the Empire, seeking its golden riches. The entire realm of Atlas is declared to be part of their growing Chaktuishnain Empire, their conquest that they've deserved from the dawn of time-their manifest destiny. The peaceful neighboring nations of Keilstrom and Barrenrift struggle to mobilize their defenses, or seek peace, against the marauding giants. Among them they have to overcome the bias of their arrogance. Meanwhile Roak sets off to set up his operations. He and his companions get off to an inauspicious start. Several members do not enjoy each other's company and begin to suspect they may be sheltering a traitor among them. They struggle to agree on their best approach, while exceptionally talented, they stumble as they attempt to penetrate farther into Recna's domain. Recna's power has long since dwarfed their expectations. Their enemies grow faster than they wish, as their hunt for Recna begins to stagger and falter. The Avokites finally seem to get back on track when they inexplicably blunder into a seemingly harmless yet desperate situation in which all of them might not survive.... .
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