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Mara Shalhoup in Creative Loafing Atlanta looks at how one of the country's most lauded housing agencies rebuilt the homes of the poor to better serve the middle class. She talks to former tenants of public housing who are now shut out of the "mixed" development. "It was all right for me to raise my kids over there in Carver Homes when it was a hellhole," one former resident says. "Now that they've remodeled and did everything, we ain't good enough to come back." That's OK to the Atlanta Housing Authority. "Anybody who finds it difficult to get in," AHA spokesman Rick White tells Shalhoup., "we probably don't want to have as a tenant anyway."

Last year, 231 traveling jewelry salesmen were robbed in the U.S. of goods worth upward of $30 million. Just since the start of 2000, 17 San Francisco salespeople have been relieved of more than $6 million, often during what truly are daring daylight robberies. Most of the Bay Area crimes, law enforcement authorities say, have been committed by organized bands of jewelry robbers based in Los Angeles and composed primarily of illegal aliens from Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. The FBI has dubbed the gangs "South American Theft Groups," or SATGs. But just because the feds have created an acronym, SF Weekly's Peter Byrne discovered, doesn't mean they know how to deal with the problem.

Thirty years ago, the nuns at St. Agnes Home for Unwed Mothers in Connecticut "brainwashed" pregnant teens shipped there to purge the shame of their premarital mistake by giving up their babies for adoption. The nuns insisted that God would approve. That's the claim of the women who contacted the Hartford Advocate to tell their stories. They also charge that the adoption of their babies was a money-maker for St. Agnes.