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...nowhere to bury the dead, the sewage system leaked, the cesspools overflowed, and the whole lot drained into the Thames, the source of most of the city's drinking water. "A lot of people looked at the mess," says Johnson, "saw how cholera could wipe out 10% of the neighborhood in six days, and concluded that London would go the same way as ancient Rome...
This public elementary school has taken the idea of global education and run with it. All students take some classes in either Japanese or Spanish. Other subjects are taught in English, but the content has an international flavor. The school pulls its 393 students from the surrounding highly diverse neighborhood and by lottery from other parts of the city. Generally, its scores on state tests are at or above average, although those exams barely scratch the surface of what Stanford students learn...
Last year my sister and I sold 750 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, so we were pretty excited about that. At $4 a box, baby, it was, like, $3,000. We did it door-to-door in Los Angeles in my aunt's neighborhood. It's getting to be that time of year again, so my sister and I will be out there soon. People didn't really notice it was us last year. When I knocked on one door, one person said, "Who is it?" I said, "Girl Scouts." They said, "We're not home." I didn't push...
Last month, officers in a crime-ridden neighborhood in Atlanta killed an 88-year-old woman while serving a “no-knock” warrant in search of drugs. The investigation is ongoing, but it looks like the police had the wrong house. A confidential informant publicly revealed that the police told him to lie about buying drugs from that location after the shooting had occurred...
...they shot him because they thought he was a Sunni," says Mustafa Jaroushi, 21. But the Shi'ites of the nearby district of Shiyah blame Hariri's Sunni supporters for Mahmoud's death, saying residents of Tarek Jdeide threw stones and fired shots at them as they passed the neighborhood on their way home from...