"Even by the standards with which she is familiar, Liberia is exceptional. "Three quarters of the population live below the poverty line--that's one U.S. dollar a day--half are on less than fifty cents a day. What infrastructure there was has been destroyed--roads, ports, municipal electricity, water, sanitation, schools, hospitals--all desperately lacking or nonexistent; eighty-six-percent unemployment, no street lights. . . ."