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Urgent Care Centers Are Booming, Which Worries Some Doctors

An emergency room entrance is shown in this Sept. 28, 2009 photo in Provo, Utah. (Photo by Rosser321 via Flikr) This story was produced in collaboration with the Washington Post. When Emily Auerswald and her children need care for minor illnesses or injuries, they head to a shopping center near Annapolis, Md. that has a Starbucks, […]

Phil Galewitz
بواسطة Phil Galewitz
An emergency room entrance is shown in this Sept. 28, 2009 photo in Provo, Utah. (Photo by Rosser321 via Flikr)

This story was produced in collaboration with the Washington Post. When Emily Auerswald and her children need care for minor illnesses or injuries, they head to a shopping center near Annapolis, Md. that has a Starbucks, a Five Guys hamburger joint and an urgent care center. From a command center in Crofton, Md., an employee tracks all

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Remembering Sabra And Shatila: 30 Years And the Search For Justice Continues

Lebanese man Adnan Miqdad, the caretaker of the graves of those who died in the Sabra and Shatila massacres, points to family members who were killed during the massacres, in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Grace Kassab) (MintPress) – Thirty years have passed since the massacre of 3,500, mostly Palestinian, […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
Lebanese man Adnan Miqdad, the caretaker of the graves of those who died in the Sabra and Shatila massacres, points to family members who were killed during the massacres, in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Grace Kassab)

(MintPress) – Thirty years have passed since the massacre of 3,500, mostly Palestinian, refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps outside Beirut, Lebanon. The killings punctuated an already violent, hyper-factionalized conflict resulting in more than 100,000 fatalities and 900,000 displaced because of the violence during Lebanon’s 15-year civil war

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Moroccan-Belgian Designer Reveals Fight For Identity Despite Stereotypes

Rachida Aziz, a Moroccan Muslim born in Belgium, is a businesswoman who uses her clothing shop as a gateway to equality for herself and for members of the community. (Photo courtesy of Rachida Aziz) (BRUSSELS) — Conventional Western stereotype has it that Muslim women living in the West can be divided into two clear-cut categories: […]

Magda Fahsi
بواسطة Magda Fahsi
Rachida Aziz, a Moroccan Muslim born in Belgium, is a businesswoman who uses her clothing shop as a gateway to equality for herself and for members of the community. (Photo courtesy of Rachida Aziz)

(BRUSSELS) -- Conventional Western stereotype has it that Muslim women living in the West can be divided into two clear-cut categories: on one hand, the veiled subjugated traditional housewife; on the other, the unveiled, modern, professional woman. This is the story of a woman that, by these standards, could be seen as having moved from the first

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A Free Market System? Not When It Comes To Prison Labor

In this Feb. 1, 2012 photo, inmate William Adams, of Hazlehurst, Ga., sews while working in a garment shop at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in Coxsackie, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) (Mint Press) – As long as the prison population remains substantial, it seems the U.S. military will have a uniform supplier. That is, at least, if […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
In this Feb. 1, 2012 photo, inmate William Adams, of Hazlehurst, Ga., sews while working in a garment shop at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in Coxsackie, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

(Mint Press) – As long as the prison population remains substantial, it seems the U.S. military will have a uniform supplier. That is, at least, if Federal Prison Industries (FPI) jumps at the opportunity to take the government contract — one they are guaranteed to win. While it may seem like a free market, that’s not exactly the case when FPI,

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Lagging Economy Reignites Gentrification Across Nation

A man walks down a residential Brooklyn street on the site of the proposed $4 billion mega-development Atlantic Yards project in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. Some residents feared the half-mile strip of 16 skyscrapers and a proposed New Jersey Nets arena will destroy the neighborhood, while others welcomed the change and hope the […]

Joey LeMay
بواسطة Joey LeMay
A man walks down a residential Brooklyn street on the site of the proposed $4 billion mega-development Atlantic Yards project in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

(MintPress) – In 2010, a record 2.9 million properties were foreclosed on as the height of the housing crisis played itself out across America. Two years prior, in 2008, the worst of the economic collapse set in, launching the burst of the housing bubble and sending homeowners scrambling for options. During the first year of the downturn, 10

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Urban Sprawl Seen As Global Threat, But Expansion Stagnant In US

Interstate 15 cuts between homes and mountains in Corona, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002, in Riverside County, which is part of the fast-growing Inland Empire. (AP Photo/Ric Francis) (MintPress) – A new study detailing the need of human beings to further reach into undeveloped areas as the population grows says that city populations across the […]

Joey LeMay
بواسطة Joey LeMay
Interstate 15 cuts between homes and mountains in Corona, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002, in Riverside County, which is part of the fast-growing Inland Empire. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)

(MintPress) – A new study detailing the need of human beings to further reach into undeveloped areas as the population grows says that city populations across the world are expected to grow by 5 billion people by 2030. Because of the upward trend, more land will need to be consumed – more than 745,600 square miles, according to the study

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