Word: philadelphia
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...Hmong hill tribe of Laos, many of whose members were recruited by the CIA to fight Communist forces. An agrarian people with an animist faith and a language that had no written form until 30 years ago, many Hmong were simply overwhelmed by their new circumstances. In Philadelphia, where some 2,000 were unwisely placed in inner-city neighborhoods by resettlement officials, all but about 400 have scattered to other locations after falling frequent victim to street crime. In Minnesota's Ramsey County, where some 8,000 Hmong took residence in the late 1970s, nearly half are still on welfare...
...tidy Korean shops that now almost dominate the thoroughfare. In Miami, native blacks are beginning to feel like spurned foreigners as ambitious Cubans give the city a Latin rhythm and take over what were once bastions of black business. On the grim concrete playgrounds of Powelton Village in West Philadelphia, black children call their Asian classmates "chinks" and "gooks." The Asians, quick learners all, call the blacks "spooks" and "niggers...
...study, which began in 1982, a team led by Dr. Barrie Cassileth at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in Philadelphia developed questionnaires for 204 patients with advanced cancer and another 155 who had been treated either for breast cancer or melanoma and were susceptible to a recurrence of the disease. The cancer victims were asked about such attitudes as satisfaction with their jobs and life in general, feelings about their health, and their degree of hopelessness or helplessness -- factors that some studies have shown to affect longevity. Using accepted psychological rating procedures, the team compiled psychosocial scores that measured...
...views expressed in the Journal did not go unchallenged. Dr. Sandra Levy, a former chief of the behavioral medicine branch of the National Cancer Institute, agreed that biology is the major determinant. But she charged that what was measured in the Philadelphia study was "limited and superficial" and that science was not "well served" by the Journal's editorial position. Her own studies of women with breast cancer, Levy said, suggest that cancer patients who are passive, stoic and helpless fare less well than others...
...cartoons. A dozen other papers, among them Long Island's Newsday, refused to run the Dellacroce installment on the grounds that the caption failed to point out that Dellacroce had been acquitted of the 1974 killing. Editors at the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune blue- penciled mention of the Calise murder. The Daily News, for example, simply called Dellacroce "underboss of Gambino family," a designation the paper based on past testimony by federal prosecutors...