(FORTUNE Magazine) – For those of you who still flinch when you enter one of those . . . opulent spending palaces that line our commercial boulevards, there is help on the way: . . . a whole line of socially acceptable catalogues . . . Now you can order Christmas gifts that are politically correct and simultaneously help Third World peasants . . . Not that these merchants assume you are crassly into acquisitions. ''At Jubilee Crafts, we do not desire to increase the level of consumerism in our society,'' says this purveyor of Botswana bowls, Mexican shirts, and Nicaraguan coffee (Sandinista, not contra . . .).

-- From an article in the Washington Post.