A Journey into Uganda's Deadly Malaria Zone
Posted on May 27, 2009 by Rebecca Harshbarger in News Features, Travel
The buses going upcountry in Uganda are bright, advertisement-covered spectacles that rattle through landscapes of cassava, banana and coffee farms. When they stop for a moment, hindered by traffic, wandering livestock or passengers seeking a bathroom break, people who live in the small towns and villages along the road run to the side of the vehicles and set up a mini-market. They’ll try to sell you anything- livestock, goat meat, glass bottles of Fanta soda–even after your bus starts moving.
New York Cemeteries Face Grave Shortages
Posted on May 26, 2009 by Robert Voris in Business & Economics, News Features
By Robert Voris
You are going to die. Of the more than 8 million people now alive in New York City, all will be dead, eventually. That’s a lot of bodies: 44 million feet of cadaver when laid end to end, assuming average height. And in New York City, where space is always at a premium, there’s not enough earth to grant them all eternal rest.
Want Fries With That? Adults Taking Teens' Jobs
Posted on May 19, 2009 by Rachel Geizhals in Business & Economics, News Features
Working the counter at the neighborhood ice cream shop is not the most sophisticated or glamorous of jobs, and it’s one teenagers usually take. But early this year – for the first time in his five years as the manager of a Carvel’s ice cream shop – William Betancourt was fielding calls from grownups begging for a job that pays $7.15 an hour.
In the past, adults called from employment centers looking to place high school kids in Betancourt’s store. Now, they’re calling for themselves – and they’re desperate for income. “They were like, ‘Do you have anything?’” said Betancourt, who manages a Carvel’s in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in Queens in New York City. “They just wanted to work.”
City Hospitals Moving Away from the Poor
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Loren Bonner in Business & Economics, News Features
The 200 people gathered in a conference room at the Intercontinental Hotel on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland talked until late afternoon about the problems the city’s uninsured face when accessing care. But the meeting didn’t include only medical representatives from Cleveland’s four health systems. Eighty people in attendance were uninsured. Since they were the very people being hurt by the system, health professionals figured it was about time the uninsured have a voice in discussions about how to improve health care.
