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Where Bombs Were Once Born, Birds Now Flock

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Posted by stevegh
Monday, 18 August 2008
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. (AP story at Wiredispatch.com) Photo below: Workers at the Waste Pits Project have removed more than 740,000 tons of pit material and shipped the waste off site in 116 unit trains.

US Makes Progress in Finding Homes for Homeless People

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Posted by jmatz
Thursday, 14 August 2008
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.
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21 US Cities Will Measure and Disclose their CO2 Emissions

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Posted by geri
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
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.
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Iranian Vice-President says Iranians are Israeli Friends

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Posted by geri
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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. (Photo courtesy of Sun Star)
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Jordan's King Abdullah Makes First Visit to Post-Saddam Iraq

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Posted by geri
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
On Monday, King Abdullah II of Jordan became the first Arab head of state to visit Iraq since Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed in 2003. The brief and previously unannounced visit was seen as a sign that Iraq's Arab neighbors finally are shedding their fear of a Shiite Muslim-led Iraq. (Most nearby countries, like Iran and Jordon are Sunni Muslim-led.)
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