Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dilapidated garage in New York City's South Bronx would not be most people's idea of an office. But for Michael Schedler and his partners in Bronx 2000, a nonprofit development corporation, such an unlikely site became the first home eight years ago for a booming business: the R2B2 recycling plant...
...R2B2 started as a sexy way to get garbage off the streets," explains Schedler, 40, the plant's chief of operations. The trick was to pay people cash to bring in bottles, cans, newspapers and other trash. Soon, not only were the streets cleaner, but hundreds of the Bronx's disadvantaged residents had a steady source of income. Today R2B2 has 30 employees and buys about 35 tons of nearly 30 different recyclable materials daily. The plant bales, melts, grinds or otherwise processes the discarded items and then sells them to companies for turning into new products...
...matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in Belize. Among the participants: a class of autistic children in the Bronx who cashed in enough cans to buy an acre of species-rich jungle...
...Happy Land Social Club was a Hispanic, mostly Honduran, gathering spot in a seedy commercial section of the Bronx. It was ordered to close in November 1988 because it had no fire exits, sprinkler system, fire alarm or emergency lighting. It did shut down, but only briefly. Police knew it had reopened; they arrested its bartender last July for selling liquor without a license...
...over the Capasso divorce; and Sukhreet, the judge's troubled daughter. Bess is a towering "glamazon" who dazzled almost everyone she met; Hortense Gabel is a stocky housing lawyer with Coke-bottle glasses and sensible shoes. Yet Alexander pairs them as spiritual twins. Both had climbed out of the Bronx through brains, hard work and chutzpah. And both hated looking back...