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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I remember when people had very different expectations concerning (Rhodesia) 
Zimbabwe.  From this a.m. NYT

Life in Zimbabwe: Wait for Useless Money 

"...Zimbabwe is in the grip of one of the great hyperinflations in world 
history. The people of this once proud capital have been plunged into a 
Darwinian struggle to get by...."

“It’s survival of the fittest,” said Mrs. Moyo, 29, a hair braider who sells 
the greens she grows in her yard for a dime a bunch. “If you’re not fit, you 
will starve.”

"....In fact, Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation is probably among the five worst of 
all time, said Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Columbia University economics professor, 
along with Germany in the 1920s, Greece and Hungary in the 1940s and 
Yugoslavia in 1993....."


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?hp