K. is now peddling ideas about how bicycles can promote Third World development.

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As I pointed out in an earlier column in Slate , the growth of labor-intensive exports from Third World countries, a development possible only because those countries are able to offset their disadvantages by competing on the basis of cheap labor, has brought about a huge improvement in the human condition, even if the wages look miserably low by our standards.

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He is credited with saving perhaps a billion people in third world countries from starvation with his development of high-yield disease-resistant wheat varieties.

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Arguably, a still more ominous threat is that posed by another strategic development: the burgeoning prospect of significant ballistic missile proliferation in the Third World.

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