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Venezuela is more deadly than Iraq.
Interesting NY Times video about the violence in the country. Venezuela has become the most violent country in the Americas. Its murder rate is three times as high as Brazil’s. Read more
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Let little girls be little girls.
My daughter will be six in December. Ever since she was on the higher end of the toddler sizes, I’ve seen replicas of women’s clothing on the racks that should have had the clothes for kids her age. Short shorts, midriff baring tops, and pieces that look like lingerie are nothing new to me, but Read more
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The Ones Who Got Away
Four of my wisdom teeth got away from me. They had been in my mouth for about two decades. I had seen them partially and felt them when they decided to completely surface in my mouth a few years ago, but when I looked at the dentist’s table and saw them, they were a lot Read more
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Mixed Blessings.
This slide show is about an Accra, Ghana computer dumping ground where “gifts” from developing countries are stripped down for their metal content. Young people are being sent to forage for copper, brass, aluminum and zinc but they are being exposed to toxic amounts of lead, cadmium, antimony, PCBs and chlorinated dioxins. Read more
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