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	Publisher says debate over cards thin By Beth Plocharczyk, , Ryan McDonald, 85 Catherine Yronwode's company publishes informational trading cards, including sets about the savings and loan scandal, Medal of Honor winners, the history of communism in Russia. One set, True Crime trading cards, has angered many people who say the cards violate the privacy and feelings of victims' families by glamorizing murderers. In a telephone interview from Eclipse Enterprises in Forest
	Freetown depicts black life in 1870s By Ryan McDonald, 85, Ted Mosey, ADDITIONAL READING Great Black Hoosier Americans by Luther C. Hicks, 1977. Freedom's Road: A History of the Black People in Indiana by Ethel Rosenberg, David-Stewart, 1970. It's like going through a time tunnel. Songs from the 1800s. Practicing for a church get-together. Dull blue and gray clothing, a style of dress appropriate to the time. Speaking in authentic dialect. This is Freetown Villa
	40,000 people die of starvation daily By Ryan McDonald, 85, Frankie Byrd, Every day, stories of tragic accidents make the front page of the newspaper, such as graphic descriptions of a school bus accident that killed eight kids or a fatal fire that wiped out an entire family. Every day, thousands of children worldwide die from hunger, but they don't generate many front-page headlines. Some kids are hoping to change that. "It would be incredible if just one day all o