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...Last week, on a stinking hot morning, some 300 Year 7 students from the two schools were bused out to Tempe, close to Sydney's airport, for a clean-up of the Cooks River and some nearby parks; they listened to lectures about pollution, river quality and storm water, played games and painted a colorful canvas mural. The groups didn't mingle much at first; a few self-conscious attempts to break the ice came unstuck. Four Holy Spirit boys sulked under a tree, offended that some Muslim girls had laughed at their Asian names. Some Malek Fahd girls were...
...Sophomore Jenny Brine got Harvard on the board 5:19 into the second period when she fired a pass from Chu into the back of the net.The Crimson was able to capitalize on 2-of-8 power play attempts on the night, with both scores coming off of clean-up efforts in front of the net. Just five seconds into a mid-period power play, captain Jennifer Sifers won the face off in the offensive zone and sophomore Kati Vaughn fired a shot that was blocked by Princeton’s goalie but slammed home by senior Katie Johnston. Sophomore...
...most of New Delhi's residential areas is forbidden, but the restrictions have been ignored for decades as the city struggled to accommodate an exploding population. In recent years, however, civic groups fed up with haphazard development petitioned the Supreme Court to enforce the law-and won. But the clean-up campaign could inconvenience customers, disrupt neighborhoods, and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. One of them is Vijay Sehgal, 47, proprietor of a wristwatch shop that is slated to be closed. "I don't know what I'm going to do," says Sehgal...
...fight back, the city's traders have organized strikes and protests, some of which have turned violent. Given their numbers, however, their most useful tool might be the ballot box. Local, state and federal politicians, worried that the clean-up will hurt them at the next election, have filed legal challenges against the Supreme Court's decision, and plan to propose new legislation that would allow some merchants to keep their shops. Smith also wrote that the U.K.'s "government is influenced by shopkeepers." That seems equally true in today's India...
...environment. Looking past all the different ways companies all over Asia have caused different kinds of pollution, I think all individuals living in Asia have also given their fair share of damage to the environment. I think that saving the environment is not only limited to making drastic clean-up methods or reducing the waste materials caused by excessive production. Saving the environment should originate from a change in perspective of how all of us view ourselves in relation to the environment. Unless we still believe that we are in control of the environment at the expense of its weakness...