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                    [Title] => Recycled leftovers
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RECYCLED. A home economics teacher in a private school would like to know if the leftover restaurant foods picked up by two slum families and recycled by them are not hazardous to their health.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135969 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1015731 [Title] => 'Slum pope' tells slum residents not to lose hope [Summary] =>

The "slum pope" returned to the slum on Thursday as Pope Francis visited one of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, telling its residents that the wealthy must do more to end the "culture of selfishness" that has left the poor on the margins of society.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-26 03:03:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620050 [AuthorName] => Nicole Winfield, Marco Sibaja And Jenny Barchfield [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/695/zvzx.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 859274 [Title] => Inside a Mumbai slum [Summary] =>

Katherine Boo, a writer for The New Yorker, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spends nearly four years inside a Mumbai slum.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133682 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1775459 [AuthorName] => Tonette Martel [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 724408 [Title] => Violence breaks out in pacified Rio slum [Summary] =>

Authorities in Rio de Janeiro said they've sent in reinforcements after soldiers patrolling a massive slum came under fire.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-07 10:17:14 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 608116 [Title] => Many homeless after Manila slum fire [Summary] =>

A fire destroys a slum neighborhood in Manila on Wednesday, leaving around a hundred families homeless.

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ERAP DEFENDED. A Sociology student in the process of writing a thesis interviewed some people in a slum area in Metro Cebu. “Would you believe,” he said, “that there are still some slum dwellers who don’t know Erap had been released?” And yet therse slum dwellers claim they are “loyalista ni Erap.” One old man said: “Gibuhian na diay si Erap? Haaay, salamat. [DatePublished] => 2008-01-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1769982 [AuthorName] => The Ear [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274018 [Title] => Sir Dylan [Summary] => It’s easy to see him as Aragorn rallying his troops for a final stand before the gates of Mordor. He is a warrior, a bard, a Robin Hood in khakis. If he were born hundreds of years ago, he would have led troops into battle with the same audacious courage that he built his financial empire with – the same conviction that has him marching through the slums of Manila.

He wants to save the Philippines. The fact that he is white, green-eyed and British doesn’t stop him from being as Filipino as Juan de la Cruz.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133180 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804678 [AuthorName] => Patricia Chanco Evangelista [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) ) )

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