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Dear Deanna! During an appointment 1 asked a strange lady to hold my newborn baby whi le 1 fil led out some forms at a counter. The next thing I know, 1 turned around and this woman who a lso had a sm all b a b y , w as breastfeeding my child. 1 went crazy and jerked my baby from her and then started hitting the lady. The police came and now 1 have to go to court. 1 accept the punishment but was 1 wrong for hitting the woman? Ask o to be upset because you don’t know if that lady’s breast milk had drugs, alcohol, medication or any thing else in it. You have a good case as long as you remain calm, tell the truth and pray that the correct justice is served. However, in the future, you need to be more respon sible and not give your baby to a stranger. Dear Deanna! -Anonymous; Brooklyn, NY Dear Anonymous: Real People, Real Advice More than half the m others in America w ould’ve slapped that woman silly. You had every reason An advice column known fo r its /earless approach to reality based siihjects! C o u n t r ie s o f A f r ic a Algeria Home to 35 Million People by R on W eber In a close race for the largest country of Africa, Algeria is only a few square miles sm aller than Sudan. Three times the size of Texas, the population rose by five million people between 1990 and 2000, Over the past three decades the country’s population has doubled, with the average Algerian woman bearing 9 to 10 children. Today at nearly 35 million people, Algeria is faced with many o f the same problems of other African nations. Poverty and sickness top the list. Asdoesout-of-control birth rates, the cruelty of AIDS and other diseases. Many people die in birth from food or waterborne diseases, bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and / R e liz I MOROCCO ! typhoid fever. Like many African nations, pov erty, illness and a low gross na tional product forces Algeria to borrow money, leaving her so cash strapped that it is unable to im prove the quality of life in areas such as health care reform and edu cation. Fortunately, the United Nations passed legislation recently that excused more Third World debt than ever before. Algeria and sev eral African and South American nations were forgiven monies owed to the world’s richest nations. The U.N. wants these poorer nations to be able to focus on better school ing and health care for their popu lations. Algeria, along with many other African nations, sought its free dom from European domination during the mid-to late 20th Century. After much fighting in the 1950s and early 1960s, Algeria achieved independence from France in 1962. Since that time, the French National Liberation Front has domi nated the political scene. The Islamic Salva tion Front has had some success in the early 1990s, but disbanded in 2000. While the highest point in Alge ria is only 3,000 miles high, most of Page AS lattò (©bseruer August 24, 2005 the country is made up of high plateaus and desert sands. Many areas are subject to severe earth quakes, mudslides and floods. The soil erosion, along with oil spills contaminates the Mediterranean Sea. Algeria’s natural resources in clude petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, lead, and zinc. Algerians grow wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits, and raise cattle. Almost all Algerians are Arab- Berber (99 percent), with only one percent being European. R eli giously, 99 percent of the country is Muslim. The other one percent is split between Jewish and Christian. One out of every four people in Algeria lives below the poverty line. U nem ploym ent is at a staggering 25.4 percent. Like its neigh bors, M orocco and Tunisia, Al geria has a con siderable coast line on the Medi te rra n e an Sea. This has been a great source of revenue for ad jo in in g c o u n tries, but Algeria has been fare less successful with tourism due to pollution and also lack of ad vertising. Political and military leaders dis agree on whether opening up their doors to European and American citizens is a security risk. Most Algerians feel it would be a great idea and small tourist businesses would flourish, thus increasing the tax base the government works from. Many tourist agencies is the past have warned Americans that visit ing Algeria was a “suicide trip,” due to all the tribal and inner-tribal wars in this country. However, now that many European and American nations have forgiven A frican debts, economists feel it will not be long before business trade and tour ism will begin to grow. O ver the past few years, a new Hilton Hotel and hotels ow ned by French entrepreneurs have been built ju st outside o f the city o f A lgiers. Initially, they have been more like a secured com pound than a four-star hotel, but that is beginning to change. T our ists the w orld over are beginning to look at A frica as a vacation hot spot, especially along the M edi terranean, as the northern part of the continent is only a short d is tance from the tourist havens in Europe. School District Hires Jeff Grad Nathan Mosley has been ap Boeing. Oregon State University pointed to the position of contracts and the City of Portland. He has over 12 years of experi sp ecialist for P ortland Public ence in the purchasing and con Schools where he will negotiate agreements for services such as tracting field and is a member of the consulting, construction and aca National Institute of Governmental Purchasing. A graduate of Jefferson demic coaching. Mosley, a local African Ameri High School and Concordia Uni can leader and coach, previously versity, also serves as head base held contracting positions with ball coach for LaSalle High. I’m 21 years old and single with a personal problem. 1 have a foot and toe fetish. W hen I talk to women and this is revealed, I get pushed away. I can't lie about this because women with pretty feet really turn me on. I would like to pamper a woman by polishing her toenails and blowing them dry. What should 1 do about my love life and fetish? —Chris D.; Los Angeles, CA Dear Chris: Y our fetish is innocent but we live in a society that w ould judge and cast you as a pervert. The most im portant thing w ith your toe fetish is the delivery. Exercise self control and only reveal your love o f toes to a woman y o u ’re in a relationship with. If you c a n 't stay in control, it’s okay to ac know ledge pretty feet, but make it quick and keep it m oving. O th erw ise, y o u ’ll never get far be cause y o u ’ll be perceived as sick. Dear Deanna! I’m in acommitted relationship with no children or financial concerns. However, I do want children. 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