Out of the Dark

Out of the dark

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The sleeping habit got her suspended, and then she started staying at friends' houses and hanging out with a girl who got her into drugs and prostitution. She was only 11. After one week of … She eventually landed in a treatment program, but when she …
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Woman found dead near New York Avenue NE led troubled life, thwarted those …

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… promising that this time she'd do better. She sent one such letter to Swift, who volunteers in the women's section of the D.C. jail, after the chaplain persuaded a judge to spare her prison and send her to an intensive drug treatment program in …
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This Week in Poverty: A Wake-Up Call on Housing and Homelessness

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Ninety percent of the funding would be used for the production, preservation, rehabilitation, or operation of rental housing, and 75 percent of those funds must benefit extremely low-income households. … “Eighty percent of people in the program are …
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Deadly 'superbugs' invade US health care facilities

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The bacteria made headlines this summer after a CRE strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae battered the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center outside Washington, D.C. Seven died, including a 16-year-old boy. (Hospitals … "From the perspective of …
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