Special Projects
Special Projects
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter five: Cancer ghosts
Mitchell Xayapraseuth gets the cancer news he was hoping for. His family expects he will go to the live at the Buddhist temple, a gesture of gratitude. Mitchell resists.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter Four: The worth of a boy
The Hmong community gathers for the ceremonial sacrifice of livestock at Steve Vue's house. Mitchell Xayapraseuth awaits news about whether his treatment worked.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter three: What spirits expect
Steve Vue completed his cancer treatment and his prognosis was good, but a shaman told his parents he still had a spiritual debt to pay.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter two: Luck goes bad
A couple of weeks after his best friend, Steve Vue, was diagnosed with cancer, Mitchell Xayapraseuth's own mysterious health problems got worse. That's when doctors give him shocking news.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter one: A bad feeling
CHAPTER 1 -- A BAD FEELING: In late 2011, Steve Vue, a junior at Service High School, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer. A few weeks later, his best friend, Mitchell Xayapraseuth, told Steve that he was having strange, troubling symptoms as well.
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HOOKED - SIDE_STORY - COLUMNS
From treatment center, an update on Kristen
Kristin Alexander took photographer Marc and me for a tour of Akeela House on Tuesday afternoon along with Rosalie Nadeau, the executive director of Akeela and some of the other managers of the house.
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HOOKED
Treatment for addicts would be smarter than jail alone
After following Kristin Alexander through the courts, jail, the Office of Children's Services, probation and drug treatment, Julia O'Malley calls for a smarter, cheaper approach to dealing with addicts.
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HOOKED AUDIO SLIDE SHOWS
Kristin tells her story - Part 4 of Four
Kristin relapses in her heroin addiction.




