Good news! From Boston to San Francisco the community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods
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Non-profit and community organizations are involved in a movement to build housing for low-income residents. Architects have designed the buildings so that they do not have a housing-project appearance. Home ownership is encouraged to give residents a sense of pride.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1997
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Good news and bad news about breast cancer
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Conflicting reports about breast cancer have caused women to overestimate their chances of contracting the disease. These reports have also led women to erroneously believe that medical advances in the treatment of breast cancer will cure them.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1996
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Magic time; observations of a cancer casualty
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The prospect of dying of cancer prompts the author to examine the nature of sickness and death. This process helps to reconcile a 'bad' fate and gives the terminal patient a degree of control over their death.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1996
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