Published: July 23, 1999
Last Updated: January 10, 2000
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Here is a sampling of international “connection” stories recently published by U.S. newspapers:  A look at international finance through a Louisiana entrepreneur who grows roses in Kenya and sells them in Holland. A Virginia distillery, famous for its bourbon, reaps new profits by selling vodka to the Russians. How an influx of kids from Ethiopia, Somalia, Bangladesh and other developing countries is affecting schools and playground relationships in an affluent Washington, D.C., suburb. Latin busboys in the resort town of Palm Springs, Calif., are among the wealthiest citizens of their communities back home. Japanese real estate investors are running into fierce opposition from residents and officials of a Connecticut coastal community. How the anchovy harvest in Peru is worrying soybean growers in the Midwest. Central Americans who labored 25 years ago in Southern California construction are now rich enough to move into the houses they once built. How a pilot project on a tiny atoll in the Pacific can help Alabama safely dispose of deadly surplus nerve gas. Why Indonesia’s new literacy law was a boon to a south Mississippi pulp paper mill. Budget cuts at the Immigration and Naturalization Service brought immigrants to the polls in record numbers for the 1998 mid-term elections. A day in the life of the stock market in key capitals around the world, relating it to the reader with a 401(k). Why Mexican immigrants are flocking to North Carolina.