Atlanta's poor lose out to Olympic glitz

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Atlanta is to host the 1996 Olympic Games and a new super-stadium is to be built there on a site that is presently occupied by a collection of tents housing poor people. The three neighbourhoods that are forming the canvas township, Poor People's City, are Summerhill, Mechanicsville and Peoplestown. Construction on the $207 million, 140 million pounds sterling stadium will begin in May 1993 but there will be demonstrations of local bitterness. The site is the car park of the existing 25-year-old stadium used by the Braves baseball team that will take over the new stadium when the Olympics are over.

Buildings and facilities, Atlanta, Georgia, Olympics, 1996 AD

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Local heroes lead the war on drugs

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The Bodega De La Familia is taking an innovative approach as it works with drug addicts and their families in the Lower East Side area of Manhattan, New York, NY. The project's organizers place strong emphasis on supporting families, thus allowing them in turn to help the addicts. They strongly reject the conventional approach to dealing with drug addicts, which tends to demonize them and regard them as needing punishment. This innovative approach is shared by the Lindsmith Center, also based in New York.

Individual and family services, Other Individual and Family Services, Drug Offenders Rehabilitation, Care and treatment, Drug addicts, Drug abusers, Drug treatment centers

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Oprah's biggest beef

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A complicated legal battle has developed in the US following the announcement by talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey in Apr 1996 that problems caused by mad cow disease in the UK had made her decide not to eat hamburgers again. Her decision prompted a sharp fall in beef futures on the commodities exchanges, while US beef prices were very low for the following two months. Rancher Paul Engler is now seeking compensation from Winfrey, claiming that her announcement cost him $6.7 million.

Health aspects, Economic aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Beef industry, Winfrey, Oprah, Hamburgers

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