1.   Hundreds of thousands of people live in similar sprawling shantytowns that ring the bleak desert around Lima.

2.   In November, the army was summoned to help police fight drug traffickers in the sprawling shantytowns, where a quarter of Rio residents live.

3.   In November, the army was called to help police fight drug traffickers entrenched in the sprawling shantytowns, where a quarter of Rio residents live.

4.   Rescue workers said they treated several people for minor injuries and asphyxiation Hundreds of thousands of people live in similar sprawling shantytowns that ring the bleak desert around Lima.

5.   The Hassuna family lives in two rooms in Shati, a sprawling shantytown just north of Gaza City.

6.   When he left five years later, a dollar bought one million intis on the black market, and hunger was growing in the countryside and in sprawling shantytowns.

7.   In Port-au-Prince Thursday, the US embassy condemned the murder of four political activists shot down in the sprawling Cite Soleil shantytown overnight Sunday.

8.   Several people were seriously injured in the protests which flared in the port area and Cite Soleil, a sprawling shantytown considered an Aristide stronghold.