random points

• negative inheritance = "when costs to children caring for their
  relatives outstrip any gifts or bequests they might receive in return"
  (The Wall Street Journal)
• severe and chronic multidimentional poverty =
  worst form of poverty (Chronic Poverty Research Center)
  http://www.chronicpoverty.org/
• sore eyes = conjunctivitis
• pitcher plant =
  http://images.google.com.ph/images?hl=tl&q=pitcher%20plant&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
• Formidable odds that confront "Con-assers" =
  http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090329-196800