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...usually turn away from scenes like the one in Englewood, a fabled slum on the South Side of Chicago. On 70th Street and South Yale Avenue, a grandmother lay dead by the front door of her house; her adult son had been killed moments before by a shot through the kitchen window; her 7-year-old grandson was missing, his bullet-riddled body later recovered in an abandoned car. The boy's stepfather, on parole after years in prison for attempted murder and carjacking, has been taken in for questioning. "Because I chose to do what was natural...
...time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar Hill, in the narrow slum alleys of Dharavi, women were getting their toes painted, and now it was my turn, like anyone else, to add to the city’s kaleidoscope of color...
Corsi had also planned to deliver a $1,000 check to Obama's half-brother George, who lives in a slum in Nairobi. One Republican ad has accused Obama of abandoning his brother, who was recently reported in Italian Vanity Fair to be living on a dollar a month. But George Obama has repeatedly denied that he said any such thing or that he feels abandoned by Obama. George Obama is currently in school studying to be an auto mechanic and says he has plenty...
...midwife or doctor in attendance--about 35% of all the world's births. In addition to age-old problems like unclean instruments and poor-quality water--in Sierra Leone, I visited a traditional birth attendant who said she had delivered hundreds of babies in a windowless room in a slum of cramped shanties, with no indoor plumbing--there are new hazards. Afghanistan, for example, has seen growing sales of over-the-counter oxytocin, an injectable hormone that is used to stanch postpartum bleeding and speed labor but that can kill if administered incorrectly. Shamisa, a midwife, says that recently...
...resourced Indian police dealing daily with rapes and murders, missing-child reports are a low priority. Zabeen's and other cases were uncovered by chance in 2005, after two men became involved in an argument in a Chennai slum bar and loud accusations of child stealing reached the ears of police. The men, Sheikh Dawood and Manoharan, and two women, Sabeera and Nawjeen, were arrested...