Looking for trouble? Tucson is a perfect backdrop for sun-drenched stories of murder, abduction, and finding the unexpected.Is that a whiff of grapes? Maybe it's the smell of rain on asphalt. Trouble comes in all kinds of forms - even some you'd never expect.Keep reading to find out what it's all about. Just be careful, the lightning can be frightening....

In Nigeria, a perceptive boy understands how back-punishing women’s work is in sweeping inside and outside a village hut with a short-handled broom of natural fiber. Sympathetically, he builds a long-handled version for his mother and grandmother, opposing the group’s fierce clinging to an absence of support for local women. In Cape Town, South Africa, a girl dresses like a boy to be safe from unwanted male attention while fetching water for her household during a city-wide, politically dr...

To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and interpreting the ordinary life of elderly African Americans on their own terms, in their own surroundings, and in so far as possible, in their own words. Ball and Whittington's research is unique in two ways: it focuses on older people who are African American and poor, and it describes the view...