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A personal essay about living with an arms dealer on Reunion Island. Can a cartoonist help unseat a dictator? When you are seeking medical help, and you know there is nothing left to do, then the next step is God.". In Nigeria, chronic disease spurs hope for miracles. Persuading traditional healers that psychosis isn't caused by evil spirits. For psychosis, a cure worse than the disease. Supernatural real estate in Mozambique. God is here and I’m sure he’ll perform miracles for you today.
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Rowan Moore Gerety is a multimedia journalist based in Miami. He covers education for WLRN and is a longtime contributor to. He has written for. Virginia Quarterly Review,. The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald,. Among others, and produced radio stories for. Morning Edition, The World. Get in touch via email. Developed by H. Weaver.
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Con Artists Take Advantage of Vacant Homes in Limbo | RMG
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Con Artists Take Advantage of Vacant Homes in Limbo. Posted on Feb 15, 2013. Original Piece on Marketplace. Http:/ download.publicradio.org/podcast/marketplace/segments/2013/02/15/marketplace segment29 20130215 64.mp3. When Ted Brass visits the homes he manages, he expects them to be vacant. Somebody’s here. You know, put the key in the door, the key didn’t work,” says Brass. His housemates agreed to pay cash for a break on the rent. Pritchett worked out a deal to fix up the place in exchange for a r...
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Three Cemeteries | RMG
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Posted on Feb 29, 2012. Original Article on Killing the Buddha. 1 Cimeterio Muanhua, Mutomote. Shall we build graves or houses here? Momade recalls asking the men. He pointed to an open patch of dirt 30 or 40 feet away. At this an old man grabbed him by the shirt collar: we’ll leave him where we buried him. Momade backed down. Houses in a cemetery? The people who are living there, don’t they have cemeteries? Beyond the alley, a pile of trash was heaped high on a row of graves. 2 Universidade Lurio, Marere.
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The Center for Specialized Education (CES) in Port-au-Prince, the only school in Haiti that offers free educational services to under-privileged children with developmental disabilities. As a low cost school for special education, CES is unique in Haiti, but it shouldn’t be. Grassroots community center in Port au Prince shows 'what could be here'. In Port-au-Prince, a community garden shows 'what could be'. Meet Jerry Moïse Rosembert, the Haitian graffiti artist who rose from the rubble.
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In Nigeria, the mentally ill have little more than faith on their side. | RMG
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In Nigeria, the mentally ill have little more than faith on their side. Posted on Nov 29, 2013. And on Roads Kingdoms. Nigerian spiritual healer Al-Hajji Mojeed with a patient at the offices of his Olaiya Naturalist Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety. A mentally ill patient shackled to an engine block at the Olaiya Naturalist Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety. For his part, Mojeed seems like an unlikely candidate for compromise. Although the head surgeries...
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Buying the Body of Christ | RMG
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Buying the Body of Christ. Posted on Jan 3, 2012. Original Post on Killing the Buddha. After 900 years, the churches reached a point of mutually accepting disagreement at Vatican II; academics have yet to lay the question to rest. And they had the audacity to send samples and a price list to every parish in the United States! The Sisters’ touch gives what other businesses would call added value. The low-gluten wafers offered by the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration continue to be the only Church...
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Tenants fight to stay in foreclosed homes | RMG
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Tenants fight to stay in foreclosed homes. Posted on Nov 28, 2013. Original piece on Marketplace. Http:/ download.publicradio.org/podcast/marketplace/segments/2013/11/28/marketplace segment21 20131128 64.mp3. Developed by H. Weaver.
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The Yakama Nation is a Native American reservation in Eastern Washington that is home to about 11,000 Yakama people and almost three times as many Latinos. From strawberry fields to crab boats, jail, and a midnight card room, a 24-hour audio portrait of California's Monterey Bay Area, with one short segment produced at every hour of the day. The only thing they cared about was for him to be present. Not learning, just present. Rules, Not Results, For A Student In Special Education. What we have today is ...
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