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...CALLIE SHELL / AURORA FOR TIME THE NEW SCENE: Brown sits between daughters Vivian, left, and Angeline outside their new apartment...
...suburbs of Atlanta, cleaning rooms for $7.15 an hour. But Brown, 27, isn't complaining. She doesn't get health insurance, but her employers are supportive. And she makes enough to afford the $595 rent for the ground floor of a duplex she found to share with her daughters Vivian, 13, and Angeline, 9, on a cul-de-sac off a quiet, wooded street in Marietta, Ga. "It's just us," Brown contentedly told TIME two weeks ago. "We're like the three bears here...
...brother John, who she believes was a drug dealer, was murdered. Police fished his savagely beaten body, bound to the bumper and rims from his dismantled Oldsmobile 98, out of Lake Pontchartrain. In her teenage years, Brown was raised largely by her sisters. By 14, she was pregnant with Vivian; Angeline followed barely five years later. Brown lived for a while with Angeline's father in Cobb County, near Atlanta, but he drifted back to his old gangster life in New Orleans and was gunned down in 1999. Brown reluctantly moved back to New Orleans in April to get Vivian...
...children through the reeking water to the Superdome. There, the family took the help offered by Atlanta writer Lisa McLeod, who got the family to Georgia. Brown first moved in with a Marietta couple. By the end of September she found her den. It's pretty crowded these days. Vivian and two cousins share bunk beds, while Angeline and Dasia sleep on a pallet of quilts and pads. But things are looking up. Angeline loves elementary school and wants to play the flute. Vivian is happy with her middle school, where she sings in the choir and hopes to join...
...chalk. Still others were poison. In 1990 more than 100 Nigerian children died from a painkiller that had been made with toxic ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol. In 2003 phony adrenaline led to the deaths of three children undergoing surgery in the city of Enugu. Akunyili's sister Vivian, a diabetic, died in 1988, a victim of fake insulin...