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How to Talk to People: The Infrastructure of Community

How to Age Up

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The Disparate Outcomes of the Chicago Heat Disaster

In 1995, Chicago had more than 700 deaths from a heat wave. The neighborhoods that were hit the hardest were on the south side and west side of Chicago. When there's a disaster, poor people living in segregated neighborhoods will fare the worst. But this other set of places wound up being extraordinarily healthy.

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