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Coming to a stop in his two decade-old Fiat, Bologna social worker Claudio cut the ignition and yanked up the emergency break. "Get ready," he said. It was January 2007, and as part of my reporting for an article on immigration I was about to meet some 15 Roma families who'd emigrated from the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Claudio's warning was partly to prepare me for the rough conditions - rusting doors and walls, leaking pipes, power cuts - that I would encounter over the next hour as the longtime city caseworker showed me around the fenced...
...program has produced more than 78,000 metric tons of fortified noodles for about 4 million low-income Indonesians. It has also produced hundreds of jobs in a country with 9.1% unemployment. "It was difficult to provide for my family before I took this job," says a TPS worker named Suparti, who uses only one name and has been working there for more than a decade. Although rising wheat prices have forced the company to increase prices 30% and the USDA's free-wheat program has shifted to nations with more pressing food shortages, for now TPS is back...
...grim is checked by the band's obvious sense of humanity. The hope-filled Geraldine at first seems like the recounting of good deeds by some spiritual guardian, until the chorus reveals, "I'll be the angel on your shoulder/ My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker." Think R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts the first time you heard...
...spins off his fair share of controversy. Questions have been raised about his qualifications for the top law enforcement office; Colberg wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the Alaska State Fair (held in his hometown of Palmer, just down the road from Wasilla), and his legal experience is mainly in worker's compensation cases. It's not the heftiest resume for a state that faces extraordinarily complicated legal wrangling over big oil and other resource extraction issues...
...past eight months, every day has brought a new installment in the soap opera of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has faced a slate of criminal charges stemming from his affair with a co-worker and attempts to cover it up. In addition to becoming the first big-city mayor ordered to wear an electronic tether, he has been accused of perjury and assaulting a county investigator in the case; he spent a night in jail for violating bail conditions by crossing the river for a conference in Windsor, Ont.; he posted $7,500 in bail for himself...