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...British tabloid discovers that he is in Iraq and, in an ironic turn of events, an Oprah episode featuring Klaus is broadcast in the Iraqi town of Arbil where he is teaching. Suddenly his relatively low profile is blown; Klaus gets a personal taste of the impacts of globalization...
...Sullivan spins in her chair to display her computer’s desktop background. In the shot, a casually dressed O’Sullivan sits cross-legged on a rug next to a colleague against the setting sun. O’Sullivan said the photograph is from a town hall meeting with over 200 tribal leaders in June...
...nearby town, Filkins and a small team of media support workers were attacked by a crowd of angry Iraqis in the aftermath of yet another suicide bomb...
From a fire-gutted shell across from a pretty park on the north side of town to a mangy wreck near the airport where a collection of cats and dogs were found chained together in the yard, abandoned residences are putting a blight on all types of neighborhoods. "We get about six to ten calls a day on vacant homes," says police officer John McGill, who stresses that this isn't just a problem in the poorer parts of town...
Just recently, this quiet, agricultural town of 200,000 was in a boom period. House prices shot up in the early 2000s, and Modesto became a bedroom community for the Bay area. But then the subprime mortgage crisis hit hard: in February alone, Stanislaus County had 1,630 foreclosure filings, third highest in the nation. The physical toll it is taking on this hub nestled amid the almond groves is staggering. Huge, dusty stretches of subdivision developments lay untouched or partially built as developers run out of money...