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Pharming Bad Bacteria
In December 2003, a farm couple in the Netherlands scheduled their six-month-old daughter for surgery to correct a congenital heart defect. But before Eveline van den Heuvel could be admitted to the hospital, a test showed that she was carrying a strain of
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The Man Who Turned Antibiotics Into Animal Feed
The food industry and the medical community have fought bitterly, and for decades, over the widespread practice of adding antibiotics to livestock feed to make animals grow faster. Banning the practice would be an agricultural disaster, food companies predict—or at least the end
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Gay Ugandans Take the Law Into Their Hands
There are things many Ugandans know about Rachael Kungu: that she is a DJ who spins at clubs and house parties, that she is warm and approachable, that crowds adore her, and that, perplexingly, she is a lesbian. Kungu lives in a leafy,
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A Rise in Fungal Diseases is Taking A Growing Toll on Wildlife
On the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserved specimens of Incilius periglenes, the Monte Verde golden toad;
![Acropora palmata spawning in Belize, courtesy of Raphael Ritson-Williams.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Nijhuis-Frozen-01-FI-300x197.png)
Frozen Sperm Offer a Lifeline for Coral
COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii — Just before sunset, on the campus of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Mary Hagedorn waited for her mushroom corals to spawn.
As corals go, Fungia is fairly reliable, usually releasing its sperm and eggs two days after the full moon.
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For Financial Literacy, A Surprising Political War
When Kelly Cook and her husband tackled the daunting task of buying their dream home in Lebanon, Ohio, they got help from an unexpected source. Struggling to come up with a down payment, the couple discovered a program intended for moderate income homebuyers
![The former road to Majuli's ferry dock, now washed away. The line of trees on the horizon marks the previous location of the dock.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jacobsen_Paradise_03-300x200.jpg)
Paradise Lost: Erosion Threatens to Destroy Assam’s Ancient Island of Monasteries
Sri Tirtha Mahanta, spiritual leader of Majuli Island’s Bor Alengi Satra, displays some of the relics he was able to salvage before his satra washed away. Sri Tirtha Mahanta, the 74-year-old spiritual leader of the Bor Alengi Satra, a Hindu monastery on Majuli
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Chinese Demand Stokes U.S. Coal Battle
TRINIDAD, Colorado – When the New Elk mine reopened amid windblown prairies last winter, it attracted little attention. But the mine – a long shaft boring through some of the world’s most valuable coal – strikes at the heart of a growing debate about the future of American coal.
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China’s Rising Consumer Class Sparks Climate Change Fears
TUOJIA VILLAGE, China – When you think about China’s growing greenhouse gas emissions, you probably don’t think of people like Zhang Chao or his father Zhang Dejun. Zhang Chao, a 35-year-old middle school teacher living in small city in southwestern
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Fleeing the Fight: Displaced in Afghanistan
Thousands of Afghans have fled the death and destruction of southern Afghanistan by abandoning their ancestral homes. They are now displaced, living in a sewage-soaked camp in Kabul, having forsaken their land for survival and their family’s future. Among a maze of mud walls, shielded by leaking
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Skipping Banks: The New World of Prepaid Cards for Victims of High Fees
It began with just one bad check, a few dollars short on a rent payment. But the $35 overdraft charge, plus another $50 late fee to the rental company, sent Betty White down a deep financial hole. Another check bounced, then another, then
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The Hill That Women Built
On a hill overlooking Kabul, with little access to electricity, women have made their own houses, brick by brick, from the land beneath them. They have created what is known by Afghans as “The Hill That Women Built.”
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Shadow Lives USA
Jon Lowenstein (APF – 2008) has compiled his recent work on deportation and immigration into “Shadow Lives.” Jon won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a TED Global Fellowship. He is a member of the NOOR international photo agency, based in Amsterdam. His work
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Is Wyoming Ruining Water Supplies to Produce Natural Gas?
PAVILLION, WY—Jeff and Rhonda Locker’s water changed abruptly one day in the mid-1990s while Rhonda was doing the laundry. A Denver-based gas company was working over an old well in back of their house. Suddenly, the wash water turned black. “It happened just
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Crisis in the Caves: Researchers Race to Protect Bats from White-Nose Syndrome
Inside the gaping mouth of Mammoth Cave, hibernating bats sleep in permanent twilight, each huddled in its own limestone crevice. Every fall, these big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) squeeze their furry bodies into nooks in the cave walls.
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The Environmental Toll of Gas Development
BLANCO, New Mexico—Chris Velasquez sees the impacts of gas development in the San Juan Basin of northern New Mexico through the eyes of a rancher. He and his dad ran cattle, until recently, on a grazing allotment called the Rosa, rolling high desert
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Energy Pollution, Past and Future, in Utah’s Indian Country
ANETH, Utah—I first climbed the sacred butte at the edge of the Greater Aneth oil field in 1998. My husband, Doug, had been here before and knew where to find hand and footholds in a break along the steep sides. He told me
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The Treasure of the Rocky Mountain Front
BROWNING, MT—Nowhere in the West does the rolling sea of the high plains meet the mountains with such dramatic effect as in northwestern Montana. State Highway 2 stretches through the northern Hi-Line for miles of coulees and intermittent creeks, antelope, buffalo and Plains
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A Whole World Gone: The Loss of the American Chestnut Tree
Early McAlexander looks through the window of his granddaughter’s car onto a wide open hill fringed by a line of white pines. “All this land used to belong to my father,” Early says in a voice that’s surprisingly steady and strong for a
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Lady of Limbo Land
She looked like a human crucifix — arms outstretched, left hand grabbing the wall while the right hand grasped the door, legs clamped. Maria Guadelupe Aranda was in labor.
I didn’t know Lupe when I put my hands on her belly. I didn’t even speak her language.
![Newly-cut stone will be used to replace damaged sections of the Temple at Luxor.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Stille_Is-Modern01-300x194.jpg)
Is Modern Egypt Obliterating its Past?
![Bruce C. Vladeck, the outgoing administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Schulte_Medical01-211x300.jpg)
The Medical Gold Rush for Poor Patients
![Miguel Tejada, of the Class A Modesto Athletics, stretches before a game, his teammates in the background. An amazing defensive shortstop, Tejada also shows great power at the plate. It is early in the 1996 season and he is showing the confidence of a player on the way up.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Breton_Villegas_Prospect01-300x202.jpg)
The Prospect
![A Dutch member of the International Police Task Force in Bosnia talks to Muslim villagers at a NATO barricade erected to keep villagers out of the zone-of-separation and from the Serb territory, where their prewar homes are located.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Beelman_City01-300x197.jpg)
The City of Brcko: The Key to Bosnia’s Future
![An abandoned filling station in Tunica County, Mississippi advertises the area's neglect.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Parker_Prochnau_Abandoned01-300x211.jpg)
![Two Azeri girls are displaced persons following the war.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Meier_Foster_Spoils01-300x204.jpg)
The Spoils of War: Report From Nagorno-Karabakh
![Though rusty from not playing daily, Santana still shows signs of brilliance as a smooth-fielding shortstop. His knee injury plagues him when he jogs. Young Latin players with injuries are replaced quickly in the American minor league system with other, even younger, recruits.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Breton_Villegas_New-York0-300x177.jpg)
Lost in New York: Baseball’s Latin Ghetto
![A schoolgirl photograph of Shirley Ann Davidson at age 15, in 1967.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Baker_Integration01-205x300.jpg)
![Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, has agreed to work with the president of Bolivia to remove coca from a United Nations blacklist. Photo by AP/Wide World](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Schmidt_Dialogue01-300x204.jpg)
The Dialogue of the Deaf Over Coca
![The plaque at the old high school in Summerton, S.C. states, with no irony, "Together Let us Sweetly Live."](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Baker_Educations01-203x300.jpg)
![If there is no more army, who needs the military boots? They are for sale on the streets of Port-au-Prince.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Husarska_Haitian01-300x198.jpg)
Does Haitian Justice Have to be an Oxymoron?
![An aerial view of part of Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley shows ravaged patches of jungle which have been cleared by peasants for the illegal cultivation of coca bushes. Use of the pesticide Spike over the area, which is at the experimental stage, could further damage the ecosystem, according to environmental advocates. Photo by AP/Wide World Photos.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Schmidt_Lure02-300x206.jpg)
The Lure of a Criminal Cash Crop
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Is the Government Losing its Memory?
![Victor Jackovich, right, the first U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, speaks with Bosnian Army Gen. Jovan Divjak, an ethnic Serb, during a break in the Sarajevo Parliament session in 1994. Jackovich was one of the U.S. officials not told of Washington's policy change on Iranian arms to Bosnia.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Beelman_Larma_America01-300x200.jpg)
![Some 15,000 striking New York teachers and their supporters circled City Hall with pickets during a September, 1968 rally...sparked by "decentralization" efforts supported by the Ford Foundation. AP/Wide World Photos](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Jacoby_McGeorge04-206x300.jpg)
![American-born, but of Dominican ancestry, Alex Rodriguez is a shortstop for the Seattle Mariners. He signed right out of high school with the team for $1.3 million in 1993.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Breton_Villegas_Imports02-294x300.jpg)
The Imports
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![These orphaned Russian siblings comb the streets and bazaars in Dushanbe, in Tajikistan, in search of food and small change. Shoeless and infested with scabies, these children are among the thousands of orphaned children of Tajikistan, the miserable spoils of the civil war.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Meier_Foster_Tajikistan01-300x192.jpg)
Report From Tajikistan
![Lakesha Smith, left, and Annette Conley prepare to lead the Class of 1996 into the graduation ceremony at Rosa Fort High School. Conley was the class valedictorian and plans to attend Howard University in Washington this fall. Smith graduated an honor student and will attend Rust College, the oldest black college in Mississippi.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Parker_Mississippi01-300x198.jpg)
![The office of fugitive Mayan Indians called Community of Population in Resistance (CPR) has mixed influences: the filing system is Western-style, but the names and categories seem copied from a Politburo manual.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Husarska_Mayan01-300x199.jpg)
The Mayan Apparatchiks
![The music school in Ilidza, a Serb suburb, burns the day before the official handover on March 12.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Beelman_Pitfalls00-300x202.jpg)
Pitfalls of Peace in Bosnia
![Betty Jo Dulaney has been running the Tunica County Literacy Center since 1985.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Parker_Gamblers01-300x216.jpg)
Gamblers’ Needs Focus a Town on its Reading Failures
!["When you're at this level, nobody can do anything for you because you are nobody," said José Paulino, 19, a new recruit from the Dominican Republic at his first major league spring training camp. "This is the profession I chose and I don't know how to do anything else. And they are the ones who decide whether you are going to today, tomorrow or the next day."](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Breton_Villegas_Dream01-300x295.jpg)
The Dream: Trying to Make it in the Major Leagues
![Haitians still arrive in South Florida the hard way: smuggled in from the Bahamas on leaky boats. Occasionally crafts are swamped before they reach shore. There have been 70 confirmed drownings of Haitian immigrants in Florida waters since 1980. Rescue workers try CPR on one Haitian whose boat capsized. Photo by Greg Lovett, The Palm Beach Post](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Millman_Delray01-300x226.jpg)
Delray Beach, Florida: Little Haiti’s Little Sister
![Prague's old Jewish cemetery, contains 100,000 bodies, buried on top of the other, 12 layers deep. The oldest grave is that of poet Avrigdor Kara. His eyewitness elegy to the 1389 pogram, where 3,000 Jews were killed, still is recited every year in the Yom Kippur Day of Atonement services. The cemetery is now a tourist attraction, part of the "Jewish Prague" tour.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Freedman_Traces-12-300x200.jpg)
Traces of the Past
![Corey Whitman, 11, is physically healthy, but is one of thousands of children coping inside a family ravaged by AIDS. His mother and sister have died and his father and other sister are infected. He is shown here with his favorite sister, Megan, who has since died. When she began to have difficulty walking, Corey was the first to put her in the stoller and take care of her. At age 11, Corey attempts to fill an adult role and helps his mother care for Megan.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Olson_Root_Others01-300x192.jpg)
The Others who Suffer from AIDS
![Winston Morin drops off his charges after the morning bus run. Transportation is a major expense for Fort Belknap's Head Start program.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mills_Indian04-300x240.jpg)
Indian Head Start: Restoring a Culture
![Marian Wright Edelman (far right) cuts the ribbon opening the Head Start center named for her in rural Hurtsboro, Alabama. Also at the festivities at the refurbished school building were Jerry Roden, Jr., executive director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations, Hurtsboro Mayor Mary K. Tapley, and Head Start program director Nancy Spears.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mills_Helping01-300x240.jpg)
![Shoes from death camp victims at Majdanek. The Germans sent clothes, shoes, stolen gold and money back to Germany. Free use was made of the human body, in what Primo Levi called "stupid and symbolic violence," using the body as an anonymous thing disposed of in an arbitrary manner. Crematoria ashes were used as fill for swamp land, as building insulation, as fertilizer, and to cover paths in villages. Hair was used in mattresses, fishnets and riding crops. Even today, in all the death camps, you can take a handful of soil and find in it human bones.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Freedman_-Reproachful07-300x200.jpg)
The Reproachful Voices of the Dead
![The grand mosque of Touba is located 200 kilometers from Dakar and is the biggest in black Africa. Touba also is a thriving market town and center for contraband. From Touba, Mouride businessmen have gained control of most of Senegal's commercial activity, and are now turning their attention to the United States.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Millman_Profiting04-300x199.jpg)
Profiting from One’s Prayers
![The continuing breakup of the former Soviet Union plays out in misery and hardship. Women in the break-away republic of Chechnya wash clothes on the outskirts of Grozny from a hot water pipe. Most of the city's residents are without hot water and electricity.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Eskenazi_Chechnya00-300x200.jpg)
Chechnya Update
![Factional fighting destroyed worker's shacks in Tokoza, South Africa. With such violence in its recent past, South Africa's emergence from tyranny has been halting and uncertain.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Berkeley_Truth04-300x201.jpg)
Truth on Trial:South Africa’s Past Shades its Future
![Rose and Isak Arbuz, from New York, stand in front of the Warsaw grave commemorating his brother, his brother's girlfriend and another couple who were part of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. Their skeletons were recovered from a basement and were buried together. The Jews fought from April 19 to May 16, longer than France and Poland fought against the Germans. There were only 220 insurgents against 2,090 Germans, Ukranians and Latvians. "All it was about, finally, was that we not just let them slaughter us when our turn came," wrote Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the uprising. "It was only a choice as to the manner of dying."](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Freedman_Survivors09-300x198.jpg)
Survivors
![This vintage postcard shows young women participating in a fire drill at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bernstein_Punishing01-300x189.jpg)
Punishing Women, Punishing Girls
![Alone and confused, Melody, 8, follows her grieving mother into a bar across from the funeral home where her twin sister's body was handled. Melody doesn't outwardly dwell on the fact that she, too, has AIDS, but she will tell anyone who asks that she probably won't live much longer.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Olson_Root_Milestones00-300x209.jpg)
Milestones
![Tomato machines carry farmworkers to sort newly-picked tomatoes in the fields of Stanislaus County, near the Westley Head Start center. Years ago, center supervisor Ismelda Cantu decided she didn't want to make the hot, dusty labor on the tomato machines her life work.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mills_Migrant02-300x240.jpg)
![The soul of the new ghetto lies in service workers like Mourtala Sall and his wife. He drives taxis six nights a week, and she cares for their two-year-old daughter while earning up to $50 an hour braiding hair for African-American women in their kitchens. They are saving to open a Senegalese restaurant, the first one, Mourtala hopes, to cross out of Harlem and into middle-class Manhattan. "Americans like our food," Mourtala says. "But white people won't go to Harlem."](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Millman_Caste01-300x202.jpg)
Caste Party: Africa Arrives in America
![Denis Goldberg left South Africa after spending 22 years in prison. AP Wirephotos](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/1995/07/Mufson_South01-copy-e1687726099230-300x269.jpg)
South African Exiles
![William J. Schilling at a deposition of Jones Day attorneys in a lawsuit involving the Keating savings and loan.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Jensen_In-Whose01-300x226.jpg)
In Whose Best Interests?
![The aged members of the burial society sit in the Ceremonial Hall of the Jewish cemetery in Prague. Most of the 1,000 registered Jews in Prague are in their 70's and 80's. The chief of the cemetery, Arthur Radvanské, stands at right. He tended the bathrooms of the SS hospital in Auschwitz. He was ordered to massage Josef Mengel every Monday and Friday from 1942-1945 at Auchwitz.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Freedman_Judenrein04-300x189.jpg)
Judenrein
![Clara and Elery Corson 1983. Husband and wife.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rubin_Time01.jpg)
Time And Time Again: Poverty In A Maine Village
![A few miles from Nyeri, the heart of Mau Mau land, these Kikuyu children beg money from a passerby. Behind them are seen the round mud huts clustered together in protection against Mau Mau raids.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Berkeley_Kenya01-300x287.jpg)
Kenya: Barely Escaping Rwanda
![Chris and her kids are crushed by the AIDS-related death of the two-year-old son of a close friend they met at an AIDS family support group. The death of the little boy, Jesse, makes Chris wonder if she can survive the death of her own children. Weeks later, despair gives way to practical considerations. She begins to plan custody arrangements for her children should she die before them. Photo by Randy Olson](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Olson_Root_American10-300x203.jpg)
An American Family Lives with AIDS
![Against a backdrop of children's artwork, Santee School kindergarten teacher Margie Oyama (right) tell Tin Hour, his daughter Marina and head Start transition project family advocate Nisseth Sath how well Marina is progressing.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mills_Head01.jpg)
Head Start: Keeping The Edge
![The Jamaica Progressive League attracted more than 300 people in a new voter/citizens drive held a Guayanan retaurant in Brooklyn's Flatbush section this March. Would-be citizens paid $120 each for photographs, fingerprints and notarized registration forms. The first citizens will be sworn in this summer. Photo by Rachel L. Cobb](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Millman_Brooklyn01-300x205.jpg)
![A barge in the Snake River, near Lewiston, Idaho.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Harden_Slackwater01-300x200.jpg)
Slackwater
![Denise Turner, 34 and her niece, Delenna Williams, and nephew, Derrick Williams. The two children were disfigured in a fire that killed their mother. Four years later, Delenna was shot in the chest, wrist and forehead while she and her aunt were searching for a new apartment to live in. Photo by John Sundlof](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bogira_Getting01-300x198.jpg)
Getting Caught Up: Families Pay The Price
![Stacy Murray, 20, a single mother melts Crisco to make french fries for supper. Her one-year-old son, Vincent, watches from his walker.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rubin_Poor01-300x204.jpg)
![Umulisa is an orphan in the displaced camp in Rutare in northern Rwanda. Too young to know her own name and unaccompanied by relatives, she has been named by people in the camp.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Berkeley_Terror01-300x184.jpg)
Terror Surrounds Rwanda’s Orphans
![This huge sawdust pile behind this West Athens saw mill shows the prosperity reached in the late 19th century. Photo courtesy of the Athens Historical Society](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rubin_Timber01-300x202.jpg)
![Judge Kenneth Turner has ruled the Shelby County (TN) Juvenile Court for 30 years. Photo by The Memphis Commercial Appeal](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bernstein_Misery01-300x230.jpg)
Misery Funds a Legal Fiefdom
![Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni gives a speech in Wobulenzi in the Luwero Triangle. The President has put reconcilliation above retribution for the country's past massacres. Perhaps a million Ugandans were killed in the last two decades. Photo by Mary Jane Camejo](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Berkeley_Uganda01-300x200.jpg)
![Buddy MacKay points to a headline in his hometown paper, the Ocala Star-Banner, proclaiming he won the Senate seat instead of Connie Mack. The photo appeared in the Palm Beach Post on Nov. 10, 1988 Photo by Bob Shanley, staff photographer, Palm Beach Post](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dugger_Computers03-300x197.jpg)
![Elvin Eldorado Harden, the author's great-grandfather.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Harden_Saved01-203x300.jpg)
Saved by the River
![Boggan found that exercising his right to a jury tial resulted in years more imprisonment than most of his fellow inmates who committed crimes where victims were injured or killed. He is scheduled to remain in Illinois prisons until 2025. Photo by John Sundlof](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bogira_Using01-300x204.jpg)
Using Your Rights Means Extra Years in Prison
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Traveling for a family: The Remittance Economy
![On the 23rd day of the impassee over adoption of the state budget in 1992, Speaker Willie Brown and Governor Pete Wilson finally started talking to each other again. The meetin gcame after Brown, uninvited, marched to the governor's office and asked to be let in. Facing reporters, Wilson put his arm around Brown and called him "my pal." The budget impassee - over education - continued, however, lasting a record-breaking 64 days. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Richardson_Power06-300x199.jpg)
Willie Brown: Power, Money and Instinct
![Under political siege in 1988, Willie Brown listens to two of the five Assembly Democrats who attempted to unseat him as Speaker. The Gang of Five's rebellion eventually fizzled. At left is Assemblyman Steve Peace of Chula Vista and, right Jerry Eaves of Rialto. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Richardson_The-Members04-234x300.jpg)
Willie Brown: The Members’ Speaker
![Two inmates enrolled in drug treatment in Chicago's Cook County jail await a court appearance. Photo by John Sundlof](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bogira_Pushing01-300x198.jpg)
Pushing Treatment For Prisoners
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