Word: slum
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...locals called it Body Street, the place in Washash, a Baghdad slum on the western side of the Tigris, where the corpses would pile up. That was a few months ago. Now every road in Washash is a body street. One of the bodies appeared near the home of Ahmed Mansur. He was standing there one morning when he heard about the corpse. He joined a group of people walking together to have a look. "He was very handsome," Mansur says. "He was wearing a gold necklace and a gold ring. There was a bullet wound in his forehead...
...wrong, but I predict that Saturday will see the first step in the long-term decline of the Harvard-Yale game, or at least the half of it that takes place in Cambridge. This is something that can’t be remedied by simply calling New Haven a slum and patting ourselves on the back...
...Washash, which some U.S. troops now call Little Sadr City. Sutton believes they are working to make Washash a Mahdi Army stronghold west of the Tigris. Until now, the militia's base in the capital has been Sadr City on the east bank of the river, a sprawling slum that houses some 2.5 million Shi'ites. The Mahdi Army's expansion across the river complicates the efforts of U.S. forces to quell sectarian violence...
...began in February with U.S. national Michael John Koklich, 49, who was apprehended after plowing his motorcycle into a police barricade - and badly injuring Keo Thea's leg in the process - as he tried to escape arrest. Koklich was charged with having sex with children in a Phnom Penh slum and deported to the U.S. He defended himself to reporters by saying that he only had sex with the children for "a very short period...
...made a comeback, just when it looked like the net was closing on it in India. Although 90% of India's districts are polio-free, the disease has spread out this year from its epicenter in western Uttar Pradesh to other parts. In March, sewage samples in three slum areas of Bombay, India's financial capital, found polio virus strains in the water. Earlier this week, a nine-year old Bombay girl was found to have got the polio virus, the first case in two years in the city...