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...want them to know that violence is not sexy." JENNIFER BAYER, girlfriend of a gang member in crime-ridden Pereira, Colombia, where wives and girlfriends of gang members are giving up sex in what they call the "strike of crossed legs" until their husbands and boyfriends give up their guns...
...crime-ridden barrio of Petare on Caracas' east side is, for obvious reasons, not considered much of a tourist destination. The rundown neighborhood is packed with cinder-block shacks, and its streets are filled with sewage. Most vacationers in Venezuela would opt for the country's tropical Caribbean beaches. That's why neighbors peered out of their windows inquisitively when a recent caravan of Americans climbed up the steep slopes of the country's largest barrio, which many middle- and upper-class Venezuelans dare not enter. The group, from professors to real estate agents, ages...
...visitors. The minister believes the first step to breaking down "real and psychological walls" is to reshape the landscape by replacing towers with human-size structures interspersed with open space. It's a formula that worked for him in the 1990s, when, as mayor of the job-starved and crime-ridden city of Valenciennes, he tackled the projects and freed up land for social housing in the city center. Expanded to a national scale, Borloo's plan originally identified 500,000 complexes - housing around 2 million residents - for renovation or reconstruction. To help meet that target, Borloo has boosted...
...Seed Company” offer of seeds to distract the consumer from the horrific mistake of having had children. (Ware himself only recently had a child.) My personal favorite is the “Happy Family Appliqués,” window-coverings designed to conceal dysfunctional or crime-ridden homes from the outside world...
...Flood Street from Hagan's home, Dahlre Brown, 42, and her husband, Edward Brooks, 36, warily entered their house after driving in from Brookhaven, Miss., where they plan to settle permanently now. "The fact is," said Brown, watching Salvation Army and EPA vans cruise the block, "this is a crime-ridden area and not an especially good place to raise kids. Over in Brookhaven they've got a 15-mph speed limit for school zones. Here they'll run your kids over." Brown points inside her house, where "the mold covers so much it looks like we wallpapered it that...