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Though the WHO claimed that MDR tuberculosis infection was untreatable and that the costs would be forbiddingly high, Kim silenced opposition with an 85 percent cure rate in a shantytown in Lima, Peru, using less expensive generic drugs...
...many of the vigilantes are simply local men pushed too far by the gang- bangers' reign of terror. Last Spring in Villanueva, a shantytown on the edge of San Pedro Sula, homeboys, high on crack, raped and killed a young teenage girl and her mother, hacking their breasts off. The screams brought neighbors who, according to Villanueva police chief Valentino Sandoval, "more or less lynched the gang". After that, there was no shortage of armed men volunteering for nightly anti-gang patrols...
...into a small speck on the horizon, as more and more of what I think and see and feel is filtered through new lenses, the wonderment with which I approach the world swells. Every red-earth-encrusted-nook, every monsoon-dampened-cranny, every horn blast and door-slam and shantytown and palace-wall screams of its life-altering-potentiality and bears the message that small places often conceal large secrets that an overly-habituated mind is too lazy to uncover...
That spring, students built a shantytown in front of University Hall which stayed up for several months, through Commencement. Pro-divestment alumni succeeded in electing Gay W. Seidman '78, a former Crimson president and a supporter of divestment, to the Board of Overseers...
MICHAEL JACKSON spent only six hours in the Santa Marta shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, but the visit made headlines for weeks. First a judge temporarily barred his film crew, headed by Spike Lee, from shooting the video for They Don't Care About Us in the slum. That resolved, Jackson arrived by helicopter and was swept into a newly painted house for two hours of makeup before being filmed singing and dancing on and around cinder-block shacks. Finally came revelations that the film company had unknowingly paid off local drug lords for permission to shoot. "Producers have...