The article is Cuba faces toilet paper shortage. Here is the
intro: "There's good news and bad news in Cuba. The bad news:
There's a shortage of toilet paper, and officials in Havana say
it will not ease until the end of the year. The good news: Day-
old copies of the Communist party's newspaper Granma, a
traditional substitute, are available for less than a U.S.
penny. And that's six to eight full, if rough, pages per day.
Cuban officials say the shortage is the result of the global
financial crisis and three devastating hurricanes last summer,
which forced cuts in imports as well as domestic production
because of reductions in electricity and imports of raw
materials. But CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria says that ``at the
bottom of this toilet paper shortage is Cuba's continuing
commitment to its bizarro world of socialist economics.''" A
socialist economy is a command economy. That is one of the three
economic systems my students learn about in the first week of
the semester. The other two are the market and