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  • There were, of course, horrors inside, and there's a danger, as someone pointed out, in glorifying resilience and calling the slum's inhabitants heroes – allowing authorities to wipe them from thought.

    Rewind radio: Slums 101; Too Many Books – review 2011

  • Vivek Prakash/Reuters STARTING THEIR DAY: Siblings Imran and Asifah, right, paused for a photo in a Mumbai slum's narrow alleyway before heading to school Tuesday morning.

    Photos of the Day: June 21 2011

  • April 18th, 2010 5: 17 pm ET if this fat slum's paycheck is voided for couple of weeks, maybe he wud do the rite thing ..

    McConnell explains Wall Street meeting with Cornyn 2010

  • Still, José Mariano Beltrame, Rio's top security official and one of the architects of the ongoing effort, hailed the raid as a "liberation" of the slum's residents from "a parallel empire."

    Brazilian Police Occupy Lawless Rio Slum Paulo Prada 2011

  • The slum's eligible women are often married off to relatives in distant villages.

    City of Lost Children Karan Mahajan 2012

  • Rather, we learned that much of the slum's economy revolves around recycling basic materials picked off the streets by armies of trash pickers.

    Patrick McGinnis: Slum Tourism: Learning or Leering Patrick McGinnis 2011

  • He says that his daughter has hurt her foot, that they have - their slum's been knocked down and that it's simply been very difficult for them to get her to school.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2009 2009

  • A member of the slum's Sadrist office said the Mehdi Army was not involved in the killings, but said homosexuality was now more widespread since the Mehdi Army lost control of the slum.

    2 gay men murdered in Iraq... GayandRight 2009

  • For some of the slum's women, the program is as important for what it offers them as it is for education about food: a chance to socialize out of the gaze of men and earn some money as chefs.

    In India, How Do Rooftop Gardens Grow? 2008

  • After liberation, the slum's residents renamed the place in honor of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the renegade cleric's father, who was killed in 1999 after speaking out against Saddam Hussein.

    A DEADLY FACE OFF 2007

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