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Local Stories January 19, 2007Miami shantytown experiment moves ahead
Rolfe Ross
A Miami shantytown called Umoja has received a reprieve from city officials, who recently retracted their threats to shut the makeshift community down. A collective of activists and the homeless, Umoja was formed to protest the city's affordable-housing crisis. - ED | New York Times | Miami Herald |Missouri kidnap victims rescued
A tip from a neighbor led police to rescue two teenage boys held captive by a 41-year-old pizza man. While one child had been missing only four days, the other boy had been living with his captor for four years. - ED | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | MSNBC |Tackling Antarctica the unplugged way
A British team of explorers has nearly completed the 1,032-mile voyage to Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility. Traveling on skis with kite-pulled sleds, the team hopes to be the first to reach the Pole without mechanical assistance. - ED | BBC | Taipei Times | |
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