Despite the perception that Ebola is bringing Africa to its knees, it is important to note that the current outbreak is confined mainly to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, which constitute only a tiny, desperately poor fraction of the continent's population.
Cast from her husband's home, Mapuani now lives in a tiny, desperately poor village called Salambongo, which means "make money".
We have stood in awe as this tiny, poor island has produced an illogical number of world-class athletes, from the myriad of talented baseball players to the Olympic boxers and runners.
Paul discovers a shantytown on the rim of Leisureland, where the tiny poor have established their own community; they strike him as less phony than the gated set among whom he resides, and he finds himself, pretty much by accident, becoming a dogsbody to Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chau), a young Vietnamese woman with a wooden leg.
GOOD news is scarce in tiny, poor Moldova.
Tiny, poor, coup-prone Guinea-Bissau has been branded Africa's first "narco-state".
But Obama's very presence in tiny, poor, Cambodia speaks to Washington's eagerness to curry favor in Southeast Asia and its inability to curb government violence.
Even at low levels, inflation is a force of nature that makes you a tiny bit poorer every day.
Still, you have to give them credit for not stuffing the moving image on anything with a screen — video capabilities on tiny, poor-resolution screens are rarely used, and often cause more harm than good.
