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...derive the most hope from the energy and hard work of young people. Roots & Shoots, J.G.I.'s program for youth from preschool through university, is now active in 70 countries. The name is symbolic: roots and shoots together can break up brick walls, just as citizens of Earth together can overcome our problems. The more than 4,000 groups of young people are cleaning creeks, restoring prairies and wetlands, planting trees, clearing trash, recycling--and making their voices heard...
...sacks of earth to reclaim land as Chairman Mao had ordered. A pumping station worked day and night to lift water from her fields over a dike and into Dongting Lake. But the dike ruptured in 1996 and swept away Hu's earthen house. Her family rebuilt it in brick, which they thought would withstand anything. Then the flood that hit two years later took half of the house away again. "I dreamed of moving higher, but we had no money," she says...
...playwright Sam Shepard. ("I read Buried Child in the second grade," says White.) And his discovery about his father led to a lifelong fascination with secrets. "You feel like even really good people are showing a different public face than their private selves," he says. Sexual secrets are the brick and mortar of The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck, and in 2001 White created Fox's Pasadena, a twisted, sly and regrettably short-lived prime-time soap (set in his hometown) about the criminal, financial and bedroom secrets of a newspaper-mogul family...
...coaches of affiliated teams are paid by the big-league teams. (A Class A minor-league rookie makes $850 monthly.) Half the minor-league teams play in stadiums built or completely renovated since 1990. And many of them rival Baltimore's Camden Yards for beauty. Built of red brick and iron, Memphis' AutoZone Park looks as if it were erected in 1880, rather than a few years...
...service were assigned as sole punishment by a Thai court to a man who confessed to beating his wife to death with a golf club 1,500 people bought tickets to a Janet Reno nightclub fund-raiser for her Florida campaign for governor, where she broke through a fake brick wall and shouted, "It's Reno time...