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Although this fact is not new, as evidenced by the increase in social marketing of bednets in Africa [ 26 ] , it does provide more evidence that even among the least educated, living in very degraded slums, people avoid mosquitoes if they can afford it.
But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
Renoir, by contrast, had lived by necessity in the slums of Paris.
This park, founded in 1865, has been called “the lungs of Amsterdam” and was founded after a number of philanthropic city fathers decided that there was a need for a genteel recreation area for the city’s population, many of whom lived in overcrowded slums.
Escobar claimed to have been conducting a war on behalf of the Colombian slums, avenging the brutality of the police with still more brutality of his own, and we can see that, in a perverse way, he did feel something of a righteous indignation.