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February 21, 2012 Visiting Writer’s Series – No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Face the G

Gladstone “Typical Evening in Jongno-gu” This is the Honghwamun Gate of the Changgyeonggung Palace in Jongno-gu, a district full of Korean history. This palace, originally known as “Sunganggung”, was built in the mid-15th century by King Sejong for his father King Taejong, and after its restoration following Japanese Collonial rule it now serves as a historic site. The Honghwamun gate is located south of the National Museum of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, and this particular moment was captured

. “He generally did the leadership classes and organization within Namuwongo, while I worked on organizing from the outside,” said Kennedy. In June, the two-day tournament was finally started, funded by the last $500 in Kennedy’s bank account. It played out on a baked ochre field on the outskirts of the slum. The day of the tournament, the women cooked and the men played. Hundreds from the slum turned out to cheer on the teams, which came down to the underdogs – called the Rangers against the

the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s.  He was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 and, with colleagues, founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. While at the CDC, he forced drug companies to warn that aspirin may cause the sometimes deadly Reye Syndrome, reacted quickly to alert women to the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and saw the first cases of a frightening new disease in the early 1980s: AIDS. Over his career, he has

university changes, including when women were finally allowed to wear pants to work. “It had to be a pantsuit,” she noted, “but we were just happy we could wear pants.” A younger Rindahl was known to ride her bike to work, from her nearby home. She still lives close to the university, and until recently would coast to the library every day, reporting for work on the third floor. “Everyone knew, ‘oh that’s Kris going to work,’” said Gina Hames, associate professor of history. Now, a bad back and foot

” and 5’1” respectively for women and men- begin to provide any kind of line? There will always be another bottom one percentile if we boost those who would only be 4’7” and 5’1”. As to equal opportunity in life, would we really choose to invest $75,000 in height-raising GH if we were truly intent on empowering the range of real opportunities for a child? Think of what a trust fund could later do for the child if that amount were truly invested. And what about other children who start from much