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As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.
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Late one night in Payatas, a shantytown near a garbage dump in Manila’s outskirts, Santiago knocked on the door of a funeral office.
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These monkeys, stuck in a cold studio, use their imagination and whatever is at hand to create their own jungle.
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On Nia Archives’ second album, Emotional Junglist, jungle’s pop princess folds surf, pop-rock, and grunge into high-octane breaks.
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Kil was fired in 2024 after participating in demonstrations related to the war in Gaza, including protests over a guest lecture and a campus encampment.
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Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments.
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There's also the time he got lost in a favela in Brazil with a carful of German fans.
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But soccer enthusiast Rafael Gomes says that the reality of life in the favela has sometimes caught up with them.
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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