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  • Cities are finally treating water as a resource, not a nuisance

    September 05, 2015 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Cities across the world, suffering from increased threats of floods and droughts due to climate change, are finding new ways to manage water, such as reclaiming natural waterways and increasing on spot water absorption.

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  • Radio Vietnam in America's Heartland Serves Growing Community

    September 01, 2015 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    A woman named MaiLy Do started a Vietnamese-language radio show in Oklahoma City after she realized on Sept. 11, 2001 that her family back home with limited English had no way of finding out if she was okay. Today the station broadcasts for 24 hours across the US and 40 other countries. It offers a voice to the Vietnamese-American population in Oklahoma City and is also essential in disseminating critical information to residents who have limited English skills.

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  • A Racial Gap in Attitudes Toward Hospice Care

    August 21, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    Despite years of change, African Americans feel ostracized from the medical care community that is dominated mainly by white people, especially when it comes to hospices. Some are trying to remove the stigma of hospice care as well as make health care systems more fair.

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  • Eliminating Bail for Nonviolent Crimes

    August 05, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Philadelphia's criminal justice system is overwhelmed. New York is allowing judges to release low-risk defendants accused of non-violent crimes with the goal of saving money, reducing prison overcrowding, and cutting down on prison violence.

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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • When a Boy's Life Is Worth More Than His Sister's

    July 30, 2015 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Due to patrilineality, sons are highly favored over daughters in many countries, with serious consequence. South Korea, the only country to have returned to normal sex ratios after having a highly abnormal ratio of boys:girls, has lessons for other countries.

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  • Why American Cities Are Fighting to Attract Immigrants

    July 21, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Despite their stigma, foreign-born populations are helping the economy of U.S. cities. Welcoming America is a national network of organizations that preach the economic upside of immigration and in this way attract immigrants to certain cities and improve their experience.

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  • Outdoor Afro: Busting Stereotypes That Black People Don't Hike Or Camp

    July 12, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In 2009, a woman in Oakland, California realized that there was a lack of African Americans in the outdoors. Tired of being the "only one," she created an online social space via blogging and Facebook called Outdoor Afro to connect African-Americans with other African-Americans that wanted to enhance their time in nature. Six years later, this group has grown to international status with 7,000 members and 30 trained leaders that join together to get out in nature.

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  • 7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

    June 30, 2015 |

    Reveal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The night shift janitor is an easy target. Working in isolation, cleaners across the country say they have been harassed, assaulted and raped by supervisors and co-workers while tidying office buildings, shopping malls and universities, as our investigation exposed.

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  • Why police don't pull guns in many countries

    June 28, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Germany, Selm, North Rhine-Westphalia

    More-rigorous police training, changing the way officers interact with residents, and requiring more education for cops has helped limit police shootings in Germany, Britain, Canada, and other nations. Their approaches may serve as a model the United States, which grapples with a number of police shootings that vastly and exponentially outnumber that of other industrialized countries.

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