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ALL IN THE FAMILY

          Only two women made it into the top 10 of the “Forbes Four Hundred” wealthiest Americans: Helen R. Walton and Alice L. Walton, the widow and daughter, respectively, of deceased Wal-Mart  founder Sam Walton, each with a net worth of $17.5 million of inherited wealth.

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PUTTING THINGS

IN PERSPECTIVE

            “Half the world's people live on less than $2 a day, a million people live on less than a dollar a day, including people in three of the five nations I visited on my recent trip to Africa.

                 “A billion people are hungry every night, a billion and a half people never have any clean water, 130 million kids never go to school, 10 million children die every year of preventable childhood diseases, even though overall life expectancy is up and infant mortality down, even in the developing world.”

From a speech delivered by former President Bill Clinton at the Labor Party Conference in Blackpool, England, on October 2, 2002.

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