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...when Colin Powell, assorted Presidents and the corporate chieftains of Powell's volunteer army are in town, they are welcome to drop by. "More than money and materials, that's what we need," says Sister Carol Keck, who has run the Neighborhood Project in West Kensington for 10 years. "Those are good things, and we'll take all we can get. But the personal connection--anyone pairing up with a child for tutoring, field trips, whatever--that's what helps most. It puts a human face on poverty...
...Neighborhood Project, a combination library, clubhouse, nature-study lab and community center, has had no small part in the transformation. Operating with a paid staff of just five and an annual budget of $400,000, only 20% of it from government sources, Sister Carol's troops have herded dealers off corners, used amateur detectives to rat out nuisance bars, covered graffiti with murals and planted gardens in vacant lots. Hundreds of volunteers have made that possible...
...Sister Carol hopes that summit participants discover there's a limit to what volunteerism can accomplish. The gathering is little more than a feel-good festival, she says, if it doesn't lead to a strategy for better schools and jobs. Steady work is scarce in the industrial ruins, enrollment at six area schools shows a 95% poverty rate, and two-thirds of the students don't graduate. Villanova's Dore grew up in suburban Philadelphia watching her peers waste opportunities. Here, she says, in a neighborhood 78% Latino and 11% black, kids are hungry for any advantage...
...DASH diet are simple, but that does not necessarily make them easy to adopt. For one thing, you need to eat eight to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables each day--about twice the amount that most Americans consume. "It was definitely a challenge," says study participant Carol Long, 45, a systems analyst from Boston. "But it was worth it." Long, whose mother and grandfather both suffered strokes, saw her blood pressure drop 10%. "Now I eat fruits and vegetables all the time," she says. "And I'm trying to get my daughters to change their diet...
...Carol Webber, a public relations representative for Knight-Ridder indicated in a phone conversation that the workers' offer was not "unconditional...