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...LaDonna Redmond wanted was a healthy diet. When her son was born six years ago with severe food allergies, she sought out pesticide-free produce and additive-free meat. But in Austin, her working-class, African-American neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, she discovered that "you could buy $200 sneakers, semiautomatic weapons and heroin, but you couldn't get an organic tomato." Austin's 117,000 residents are served by only one major supermarket, along with scores of small outlets that sell mostly fast food and processed food--fueling high rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension in the community...
...year after her son's birth, Redmond inaugurated the Austin Farmers Market. On summer Saturdays an elementary school playground fills with stands selling collard greens, turnips and okra organically grown by African-American farmers in Kankakee County, south of Chicago. She and her husband Tracey also began growing vegetables in their backyard, a project that has expanded into a working farm on six vacant lots. Last year they grew 40,000 lbs. of produce...
Zach never forgot his words to his mother. Two weeks ago, Eastern Kentucky was battling with Austin Peay in the OVC championship game, with a NCAA tournament berth on the line. With 19 seconds remaining and Eastern Kentucky leading by a single point, Ingles found himself 26 feet from the basket, with the ball in his hands and the shot clock winding down...
...least 20 flat-track leagues have popped up in the past few years, in contrast with half a dozen still using the old tracks. "Banked track is the sport of dinosaurs," says flat-track pioneer Lacy Attuso, a.k.a. Whiskey L'Amour of the Texas Rollergirls in Austin. "We're the new wave." Attuso, who is a p.r. exec by day, says the Rollergirls are creating "a coalition of the willing" that will hash out official flat-track rules in Chicago this summer. And the league's inaugural meeting comes none too soon. "The injury rate in flat track is extremely...
...Gobi, noted that the government trapped people in the service in deplorable living conditions. Says he: "If there's a record that needs setting straight, I'll set it straight." Though no longer barefoot, Shan may be helping China more than ever. --By Michael Schuman. With reporting by Austin Ramzy/ Hong Kong