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Around the Nation
5:51 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

Rising Income Gap Shapes Residential Segregation

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Mechelle Baylor's home in the Shaw area of Washington, D.C., has been in her family since 1929. She says she's seen her neighborhood change a lot as her neighbors move out and higher-income earners move in.
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Originally published on Mon September 24, 2012 1:20 pm

The income gap is receiving much attention lately as more Americans are isolating themselves around "people like us."

More accurately, they surround themselves with people who earn similar incomes, and it is now fueling a rise in residential segregation. One recent study suggests the income gap might be greater today than even during colonial times – even when you account for slavery.

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Around the Nation
4:51 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

Rare Specimens: An Unusual Match-Up In Entomology

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Entomologists Alma Solis and Jason Hall specialize in moths and butterflies, respectively.
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In the couple's suburban Maryland home is this artwork, a wedding present, of a moth courting a butterfly.
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Originally published on Sun September 23, 2012 6:16 pm

Alma Solis, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Lab, and her husband, Jason Hall, a researcher with the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, are, at first blush, a natural match.

Both are entomologists, a career that requires long hours, field work and travel for months at time — all without huge pay. But the couple soon learned that though they shared a passion, they did not share a specialty.

Hers: moths.

His: butterflies.

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Around the Nation
4:18 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

Vt. Town Hires Livestock To Save Money, Go Green

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Charlotte, Vt., has a new, old-school strategy to keep cemetery grass cut: Let animals do the work.
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Originally published on Sun September 23, 2012 5:51 pm

Cities and towns facing tight budgets have often neglected their cemeteries, an oversight that has left many of them in disrepair with broken fencing, crumbling gravestones, overgrown grass and persistent weeds.

But this summer, the Vermont town of Charlotte implemented a new strategy to both save money and keep grass in the town's graveyards under control, and it's a decidedly traditional way of doing it: Let goats and sheep do the work.

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Europe
4:17 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

Poverty, Segregation Fuel Marseille Crime Wave

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Police climb the stairs in a building on the north side of Marseille, southern France, as part of an operation in January against drug dealing and gun proliferation.
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Police officers in Marseille carry out checks on passing cars Sept. 8, two days after the French government announced an increased police presence and the creation of a security zone in the city.
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Originally published on Sun September 23, 2012 5:51 pm

Drug and gang violence in Marseille, France's second largest city, has gotten so out of control that one local politician has called for the army to be sent in to restore order.

The proposal shocked the French and President Francois Hollande. Now, the French government is making the city a top priority.

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Around the Nation
4:16 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

'New Deal' Town Turns 75, Utopian Ideals Long Gone

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A visiting rabbi teaches children. The majority of Jersey Homesteads came from the Bronx's Jewish community.
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Barry Leving worked as a tailor in the cooperative garment factory in Jersey Homesteads. This town was one of 99 towns set up by the National Industrial Recovery Act in the midst of the economic crisis in the 1930s, and was later renamed Roosevelt, after the president who set up these 'New Deal' towns. The photographs in this slideshow were taken in the early days of the town.
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Some 80 garment workers at work in the town's cooperative factory. This was one of a handful of cooperative ventures that were built to be at the center of this new, utopian town. Most failed.
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Women at work in the millinery department of the cooperative garment factory.

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A tailor measures a woman for a coat, which was produced by the town's garment factory.
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Residents shopped at local cooperative stores in town. This was one of the first, the more permanent home of the shop Nathan Dubin ran out of a garage.
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Abe Lipsky, the farm foreman, moves into his home after living in temporary quarters for more than a year. One argument for why the cooperative businesses failed is that they were expected to be productive before the town was fully settled.
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A temporary consumer's cooperative in a garage run by Nathan Dubin. The homesteaders had their own kosher meat shop and grocery.
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Outside one of the new cooperative houses. They were designed in part by now-renowned architect Louis Kahn. At the time, Kahn was a young assistant.
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The directors of the town's consumers club.
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The cooperative garment factory in Roosevelt, N.J.
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Part of the promise of Roosevelt: Every resident is guaranteed a place in the town's cemetery.
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A section of Ben and Bernarda Shahn's mural in Roosevelt, N.J.'s elementary school depicts the plight of laborers.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 1:29 pm

The town of Roosevelt, N.J., was born out of an era not much different from today. It was 1937, the economy was in the toilet, and the country bitterly divided.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had won a second term in office — an election as acrimonious as today's — and with his re-election, a host of New Deal programs moved forward. One of these projects built 99 towns outside of industrial centers across the country. The town of Roosevelt, 50 miles south of New York City, was one of them.

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