Word: midwest
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Jane Anderson: I’m not a Midwesterner, but I have enormous respect for the Midwest sensibility. The thing about the Midwest is that it’s a farm culture, and the farmers know that if their crops are destroyed by drought or locust or freezing, they can’t sit on their porch and cry about it. They have to get back on the tractor and plow the field. And it’s that kind of sensibility that I admire, and that’s Evelyn Ryan’s sensibility. Some people call...
...wasn’t the first to offer it. Just before they began the trip, Matt and Andrew ate dinner with friends in Tribeca. Their plan was to leave New York and make a 45-degree angle into the Midwest. From there, they’d head west to Seattle, dip down the California coast into Texas, and snake east through the South. Fifteen thousand miles later, they’d end up back in New York. Their dinner companions were impressed, but wary. “They said, ‘Be careful, there’s crazy people...
...Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the largest U.S. terminal, has yet to open and Midwest refineries may soon experience shortages...
...diabetes. Tambi?n son mucho m?s propensos al asma y la hipertensi?n. Y mientras los pol?ticos hablan de las injusticias y los da?os de estas disparidades, Aida Giachello, de 59 a?os, se ha subido las mangas para tomar al toro por los cuernos. Giachello fund? hace doce a?os el Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. Desde entonces, el centro se ha convertido en un ejemplo a la hora de involucrar a l?deres comunitarios (en lugar de ?expertos? profesionales) en la obtenci?n de informaci?n, evaluaci?n de las necesidades m?dicas y desarrollo de planes...
...from potentially life-threatening diabetes. They are far more likely to be plagued by 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...