Word: neighborism
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Ester Hodges learned that the hard way. A former construction worker who moved into a west-side Milwaukee home three years ago, she says a neighbor's young daughters terrorized her street and, more personally, bullied her children. Hodges, 48, became a one-woman block watch, calling the police regularly, buying surveillance cameras with her own money and speaking out at community meetings. "I let the police know time after time that trouble was coming," she says. Briefly last spring the police monitored her area more closely. Three weeks after the patrols stopped, however, Hodges says, a threatening group showed...
Ring in the holidays with memories of a crackling, warm fire...that burned the Canadian city of Halifax to the ground. In 1917, friendly Bostonians aided our neighbor to the north with that pesky blaze, and since then, the kindly folks of Nova Scotia donate the Christmas tree at Boston Common. Come for the lighting, stay for the embarrassment of Canadians everywhere...
...neighbor Toscanini’s (1310 Mass. Ave.) will also soon close—probably permanently—when its premises are renovated this winter...
They're divided into two camps. There are the gringos who go down there and live in gated communities or in condo complexes. They don't mingle as much. In our village, we live with our Mexican neighbors. My first next-door neighbor was a construction worker, and there were chickens running up and down the dirt road. By the way, chickens gobble down scorpions, so that makes them really good neighbors...
...already see the difference in Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom of 2 million people surrounded by its much larger and richer neighbor, South Africa. At least 22,000 Basotho children are HIV positive, but as of two years ago, fewer than 20 were on ARVs, and there were only two doctors in the whole country looking after children with AIDS. In the year since the children's clinic opened on the outskirts of Maseru, 700 kids--including Bokang--have received treatment from 10 pediatricians...