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In July, days before teams of homeless people from around the world began to arrive in Edinburgh to compete in the third annual antipoverty soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup, UK immigration denied visas to the teams from Kenya, Zambia, Burundi, Cameroon, and Nigeria, ruling that the players likely lacked the funds to support themselves during their stay. And when prosecutors in Knoxville, Tennessee, summoned 582 parents of chronically truant students to a meeting in March to advise them of their legal responsibility to get their kids to school, 241 failed to show up.
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The Chicago Tribune reported in June that a man was hospitalized after being knocked unconscious by an el train arriving at a south-side station; he’d been leaning over the edge of the platform in search of the cell phone he’d dropped. Also in June, WSB TV reported that a man had been rushed to a hospital in suburban Atlanta with a wound in his neck; a witness told police the man had been attempting to repair a speaker wire using, in some unspecified way, a .22-caliber bullet.
