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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has just gotten quite a bit of company: As many as 6,600 graves at the country’s hallowed Arlington National Cemetery for fallen U.S. service members may be mislabeled, one lawmaker said on Thursday.Julian Assange, founder of the website that published more than 91,000 secret U.S. military reports from Afghanistan, says he’s revealing injustices. President Barack Obama says he’s concerned that disclosure of sensitive information may harm military operations.Subletting in NYC typically involves some kind of covert transaction. Try to find a budget traveler who hasn’t enjoyed the risk of Craigslist’s lease-free rentals. But thanks to a bill Gov. David Paterson signed into law last Friday, renting an apartment for less than 30 days isn’t kosher. Fortunately, there’s a saving grace for those in search of short-term living: Jersey City.Unless the locals covered you in meatballs and sang “Nessun Dorma” upon arrival, this vacation could hardly be more Italian. For this is a “Vespa vacation” — a two-wheeled tour of the nooks and crannies, the winding back roads and the off-the-beaten-track hidden gems of breathtaking Umbria, a beautiful region located in Central Italy.Telling Liris Crosse that she can’t do something might be a guarantee she will try.Around the corner from the marquee that bears the name of one of Hollywood’s founding fathers, Marcus Loew, and adjacent to one of Boston’s oldest cinemas, the newly restored Paramount, BiNA Osteria’s Cinema Italiano brings benchmark Italian movies (with English subtitles) to Downtown Crossing. Pair, say, Fellini’s masterful three-hour stunner “La Dolce Vita” with BiNA’s Cinema Italiano three-course prix fixe ($35). Or choose the inky black seafood risotto ($23), which is as dark and decadent as the film’s finale. Next up: “Johnny Stecchio.”Although facts on the famed Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding, which is rumored to happen this weekend, are tighter than Hillary Clinton’s smile, some details have leaked out. Sources report that groom Marc Mezvinsky has “hurt” his father’s family by not inviting them to the wedding (Ed Mezvinsky pleaded guilty in 2002 to swindling investors out of $10 million.School is in session at Gillette Stadium, where the Patriots kicked off their 2010 training camp Thursday.As the clock ticks down to baseball’s trading deadline, the Red Sox don’t appear close to making any splashy moves. Deals can, and often do, come together at the last minute, however, so fans will wait on tenterhooks.
To learn more about Community Voices, visit the Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service at www.cchers.org.
An infant innocently glances at the camera. Next to the photo, pasted as if it came from the child itself, is the question: “When I grow up, will I get cancer?”
Such are the harsh realities explored by 24 Boston-area high school students who took part in the second annual Community Voices program, an initiative that lets teens address health disparities in the city through photo essays and an oral history project.
“We had to make the image speak for itself,” said Carmen DeJesus, 18, a senior at Madison Park High School who researched infant mortality. “You think you might learn this at school or on TV, but if you don’t get into it you won’t see it.”
The group presented its photos last night at Northeastern University, coupling each with chilling facts, statistics or quotes taken from a summer of research.
Maya Saunder, a student at Boston Latin Academy, portrayed the glut of fast food restaurants in certain neighborhoods as a potential reason that blacks in Boston have a diabetes rate 2.5 times higher than whites.
Verola Jeanty and Wilza Merzeus, seniors at the Health Careers Academy, explored how the stresses of racism can cause infant mortality rates in black babies two to four times higher than whites in the first year. And Rudy White Jr., a student at Fenway High School, detailed through his photos how a family makes “unhealthy choices” when it can’t afford certain items.
Death rates for all cancers combined are highest among blacks and higher for other minorities compared to whites, a dilemma with which a young baby may be forced to contend.
As Jeanty put it in a poem she delivered to the crowd on hand: “We have a lot to think about.”
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