Word: slummed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satellite, partly owned by a fledgling Hong Kong company, has a simple function: it transmits a service called STAR TV, for Satellite Television Asia Region, which beams such Western television fare as the BBC and American programming such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and MTV to impoverished slum dwellers in Cairo and the nouveaux riches in Zhangzhou. Though its current audience is a mere 13 million, the reason for its value is the size of its potential market: 3 billion people, two-thirds of the world's population...
...from beatings by a drunken father. Freedom from fighting with seven siblings for a crust of bread. Freedom to hope. Cristiano, now 16, fled the abuse and violence of his home at 6. Surely the streets of glamorous, wealthy Rio de Janeiro offered a better life than the wretched slum west of the city where he was born...
...cities. "The typical menino de rua," says Roberto Jose dos Santos, who runs the Sao Martinho shelter, "is black or mulatto with lots of brothers and sisters. There is an alcoholic mother or stepfather. He, and increasingly she, has grown up in a climate of violence in a suburban slum. No one is concerned about keeping him in school. There is no love or affection at home, and so he leaves...
...fruitful collision with a sperm-soaked Sicilian tomato. A bright, lonely boy could not be the spawn of this horrid clan. Surely he is not destined to replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts about his family. He will erect a castle of words on the fertile ground of his imagination, on the fetid soil of his craving for love, revenge and escape...
...most Haitians is Aristide's return. Many of those who are building boats to flee say they will stay home if he comes back, as he urged them in a special Creole broadcast on Voice of America. "The people will not leave now," said a Haitian man in the slum of Cite Boston. "We are waiting for him -- for Aristide." While conceding that he was not the perfect President, Haitians like the priest in the town of Jeremite say "restoring Aristide to power is restoring the democratic process." The exiled President, however, has been less popular in Washington, where Bush...