The other countries of Central Asia are run by former Soviet apparatchiks unlikely to embrace programs that shift power to villagers.
We have seen girls step up as leaders in their communities to speak openly about their risks for HIV and embrace programs to reduce them.
Locally, we must make it a priority to decrease our dependence on non-renewable energy, increase recycling efforts and embrace programs that will reduce our energy consumption and make us less reliant on imports.
During that time, the smell of the Great Depression's bread lines still lingered, which helped convince many to ditch their qualms about European socialism and embrace programs that might keep them alive, along with the labor unions that could agitate for their interests in Congress.
These embrace programs of amnesty for rebels, for a free press and other democratic measures, an end to foreign assistance to the rebels and an end to the practice of one country letting rebels use its territory to stage attacks on a neighboring country.
