Fall 2003 Issue

An education in "informal lending" in New York

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mas-f03-200 [dropcap cap=J]orge[/dropcap] Mas has an appointment to learn more about informal lending in the Hispanic community.

The downside? "Informal lending" actually means loan-sharking, it's 8 pm, and he'll be having this meeting while the loan shark-or "prestamisa"-makes his evening rounds through New York's Corona neighborhood.

An education in "informal lending" in New York

   

The Onion Fields and the Future of Modern Medicine

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For someone who had just been anointed the "future of modern medicine," Leslie Maul felt woefully under qualified. She wasn't a doctor-for that matter she hadn't even taken her MCATs -and she had little power to help the migrant workers and the indigent in rural Georgia.

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