'Gates of change': Fifty years after the Little Rock Nine, Central High School looks back
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The controversial admission of nine African American students in 1957 in the white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas enabled the opportunity for societal change in the whole of America. Fifty years later, the bravery of Little Rock Nine is remembered, indicating the responsibility of American society to make things better and equitable for all.
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Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 2007
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Health care's color lines
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Doctor Marshall Chin is heading 'Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change', a program launched to eliminate racial and ethnic inequalities in medical care. He believes that poverty and patient diversity contribute to the inequality of health care provided to them, which can be eliminated by financial and political support.
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Subject: Education
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Year: 2007
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The big one
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The world's awareness of natural calamities like earthquakes, storms, flood has not always translated into preparation, the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina to the city of New Orleans, US being the latest example. The difficulties encountered by planners in charting out response actions to such disasters are described.
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Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 2006
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