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The Boston Schoolyard Initiative started with parents and teachers clamoring for safe places where they could tell kids to "go outside and play." As it has evolved, its new motto could be: "Go outside and learn." The effort to renovate school sites has become a national model for addressing childhood obesity -- with outdoor classrooms: mini wilderness zones, gardening areas, and other features teachers can use for everything from science lessons to writing projects. (
A site once home to a Cold War-era uranium processing plant and the focus of a contentious struggle to clean up toxic waste has re-emerged as a haven for wildlife and a memorial to those who worked to make the area safe. (
On July 30 the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported the number of chronically homeless people living in shelters and on the streets dropped roughly 30% from 2005 to 2007 (175,914 to 123,833). 3,800 US cities and counties and the localities engaged in counting every homeless person living on the street, using shelters or housed in jails and hospitals with nowhere to go upon release.
Twenty-one US cities, including New York and Denver, have
announced they will measure their greenhouse gases emissions, in a
joint effort to seek ways to halt and reverse global warming. A non-profit organization will help the
cities report carbon emission data for their jurisdiction's operations - fire
department, ambulance and police services, municipal buildings, and waste
transport, for example.
An Iranian vice president said in rare comments that Iran
was a friend of Israeli people, newspapers reported on Monday. “I say
for a thousandth time that we are a friend of all people in the world,
even Israelis and Americans,” the daily newspaper Etemad quoted
Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the vice president for tourism. Good News Login
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