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...trash, unemployment and poor public services. Meanwhile, the mob syndicate in and around Naples, known as the Camorra, has long infiltrated the trash-collection business, turning big profits and creating environmental hazards. For more than a decade, a mix of criminal influence, government inaction and not-in-my-backyard opposition to expansions of landfills have caused on-again, off-again scenes of huge piles of trash in city streets. Estimates are that some 3,500 tons are currently waiting to be cleaned up and carried away...
...Creamer's "renaissance" is the kind others don't want in their backyard. EnergySolutions had been, for the most part, operating under the national radar - until news of the company's plans to import 20,000 tons of LLRW from Italy hit the local Utah media late last year and the national media shortly afterward. EnergySolutions had hoped to process the waste at a Tennessee facility and deposit 1,600 tons of it into the company's radioactive waste landfill in Clive, Utah. But now a torrent of opposition has come up against that plan...
...both sudden and solitary (it happened at home while my mother and I were away). As I read, I remembered all the wonderful moments we shared over the twenty-some years I had him in my life: how he made me a kite to fly in our backyard, how I saluted him before he went away to war in 1942, how proud he was when he held my infant sons for the first time. Those memories are all the more precious as the end of my own term on earth draws closer. Gems of writing like Gibbs' evocative piece...
Barack Obama had not been in politics for long when he got his tail whipped by a veteran Chicago Congressman in his own backyard. For a brief period that followed, Obama seemed a bit unsure about what to do with his life--the same kind of unsettling early stumble made by others who went on to seek--and often win--the presidency. Yet within four years, Obama had won a seat in the U.S. Senate. Less than four years after that, he has all but clinched the Democratic nomination for President...
...either buy a CD that has you visualize walking along a beach, or what I like to do with my patients is have them imagine a place where they feel very safe and happy. This can be their grandparents' backyard from when they were a kid, or it can be their favorite hike, or whatever. Our brain's capacity to transport us to places through our imagination is wonderful...