Good news! From Boston to San Francisco the community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods

Article Abstract:

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.

Social aspects, Housing, Public housing, Inner cities

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Good news and bad news about breast cancer

Article Abstract:

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.

Reports, Women, Cover Story, Diseases, Breast cancer

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Magic time; observations of a cancer casualty

Article Abstract:

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.

Psychological aspects, Terminally ill persons, Terminally ill, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Death, Cancer patients

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