Americans serving abroad make requests for goods that will help the local people and improve their relations with them. Spirit of America collects donations to meet the request and purchases and ships the goods to the requestor. Donors are given follow up information and photos when the goods are distributed.
Seen at Baseball Musings, whose attention was caught by the story of Afghans learning baseball. (Can you imagine trying to explain the balk rule to those guys?)
Oh good grief. A first novel uses Mad Cow disease as a plot device. For all I know, it's a good novel, but still...
Posted by Linkmeister at January 6, 2004 03:45 PM