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...appearing in New York, Houston and Los Angeles: Santa Muerte. The personage is Mexico's idolatrous form of the Grim Reaper: a skeleton - sometimes male, sometimes female - covered in a white, black or red cape, carrying a scythe, or a globe. For decades, thousands in some of Mexico's poorest neighborhoods have prayed to Santa Muerte for life-saving miracles. Or death to enemies. Mexican authorities have linked Santa Muerte's devotees to prostitution, drugs, kidnappings and homicides. The country's Catholic church has deemed Santa Muerte's followers devil-worshiping cultists. Now Santa Muerte has followed the thousands...
...visits are difficult for the mammography teams, so it is left to the woman to visit a hospital. Often she won't. "If you live 60 km from a clinic and you feel a lump and it's painless," asks Dr. Aaron Ndhluni, a private breast surgeon in Cape Town, "are you going to walk...
...described as very important by 66%, compared with 56% for social issues. That can only help the former New York City mayor whose local war on terrorism was viewed as more competent than Bush's and who famously ejected Yasser Arafat from Lincoln Center and practically wore a cape to work as an urban crime fighter...
...becoming regular club and provincial players, and on a national level they are proudly supported by the white Springbok fans and spectators. No one in the government tells South African football to field some whites, Asians or other nonblacks, so why should rugby be singled out? Richard Spencer-Cheetham, CAPE TOWN...
...plus undergraduates to get out of here. The Ivy gates, as exclusive and foreboding as they are to outsiders, often prove more suffocating to those inside, and the administration is doing its best to encourage its undergraduates to forsake Lamont for Latvia and the Coop for Cape Town...