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  • Toward The American Dream?

    It now takes a yearly income of $96.513 to be able to afford a median price home in Los Angeles—$481.000. That is the third highest in the country. The highest needed income of $145,361 is In San Francisco, and the second highest of $101,682 is in San Diego. These figures assume a 30-year mortgage at…

  • Luz Maria Forgiveness Notes

    Luz Maria is Pablo Escobar’s sister. He was of course the notorious drug lord in Medellin, Columbia, accused not only of torturing but murdering numerous victims in his quest for domination of the drug trade. Luz Maria now leaves notes on the graves of many of her brother’s victims asking for forgiveness. Yet instead of…

  • Just As Human

    Nader Alemi has been a psychiatrist in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, for many years. Most of his patients have been from the Taliban and I was fascinated by his comments to a BBC reporter. We are so used to seeing

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