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<p>The anti-immigrant sentiment that some Latinas in Georgia are experiencing has led some women to refrain from scheduling routine medical exams that could save their lives.</p>
<p>tứ chi em đã bất đồng ngôn ngữ/ cuộc đời em vẫn bất toại, lết la/ nỗi tủi hờn ngày đêm mọc trên tóc/ xõa trên em một căn cước bên lề</p>
<p>i can't help asking:/ why you must wait/ all of these years/ for a surgery/ to be free/ so that with the first time you rise/ your life is clothed in the silk of humanity</p>
<p>Following the decline of the studios in the 1960's and 1970's, Culver City had to reinvent itself. Today, nearly 40,000 people call Culver City home, and it's widely thought of as a safe place to live and a good place to raise children.</p>
<p>As part of their PLACE Grant, Culver City had to hold a series of public workshops to bring the public in to their transportation planning. The goal was to produce a popular Bicycle and Pedestrian Initiative, but in Culver City the process also produced a new group of bicycle activists.</p>
<p>Sometimes, the simplest tools in medicine are the ones that give us the most useful information. Take the humble blood pressure machine, for example. It's been around for years, and it's cheap, compared with a lot of other medical devices. It's simple to use, and it doesn't require a medical or a nursing degree to operate. But the numbers it reports are valuable in helping predict a person's risk of a host of medical problems, including heart failure, stroke and kidney failure, and can help doctors determine whether a person really needs to take medicine to control his or her high blood pressure.</p>
<p>For Culver City residents who cycle as their primary means of transportation, the new bike routes afforded by the 2008 PLACE grant marked a positive improvement in city planning.</p>
<p>Los Angeles County awarded five grants to Southern California cities in 2008 to encourage more effective transportation planning and healthier living.</p>
<p>Californians are required to disclose the radon level in their home, if known, before transferring it to a new owner. Nevadans are not. In both states, renters are particularly vulnerable. "There are no regulations to protect renters from radon in Nevada," said Susan Howe, radon education program
