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...asthma and hypertension too. While politicians may pay lip service to the injustice and dangers of such disparities, Aida Giachello, 59, has rolled up her sleeves to take these scourges head on. She founded the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago 12 years ago. The center has since become a national model for engaging community leaders, rather than outside "experts," in collecting data, assessing medical needs and developing plans for combatting health problems that disproportionately affect Latinos...
...Among its programs are three diabetes-focused self-care centers in struggling Chicago neighborhoods, each serving roughly a thousand residents a month, many of them undocumented and uninsured. Giachello, a University of Chicagoneducated sociologist and former social worker, has made the training of researchers, physicians and nurses a priority. "There are cultural elements to providing care that even top non-Hispanic students don't understand," she says. For example, she explains, many clinicians are ignorant about the widespread use of faith healers, herbal concoctions and other home remedies among Hispanics and so don't always know the relevant questions...
...Vineyard town of Chilmark, after he allegedly dropped a razor blade on the floor of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The police later found seven maps, worth $900,000, in Smiley’s possession. The British Library in London, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and the Boston Public Library have also reported missing materials...
Wright would be just the second woman on the Corporation, alongside Nannerl O. Keohane, who joined at the beginning of last month, replacing Hanna H. Gray, the former president of the University of Chicago. A larger female presence on the board could help University President Lawrence H. Summers, who is himself a member of the Corporation, deflect criticism of his commitment to the advancement of women at Harvard...
...retains many of the characters, like shop owner Calvin, who is played by Omar Gooding rather than Ice Cube, a producer of the series. But the stories rely much more on the social-button-pushing aspects of the movie. In the second episode, the shop's gentrifying Chicago neighborhood gets a franchise of a black rap star's clothing chain called Niggaz. (The chain, the narration explains, is "the value-priced version of his high-end store, Uppity Niggaz, in Beverly Hills.") One character argues that the store empowers black people by taking back a word from white racists. Eddie...