21.   Spurred by desperate poverty, their inhabitants are inventing their own machines and building everything from toys to car parts from junk.

22.   The final destination for many of the children is Ivory Coast and Gabon, two countries with relative agriculture and mineral wealth in a region of desperate poverty.

23.   While desperate poverty drives Third World children into sexual bondage, young prostitutes in the United States are more likely to be runaways.

24.   Rampant unemployment and desperate poverty in Mozambique have combined to make its work force vulnerable to tricksters.