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GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE These 18 women, ages 59 to 91, protested the war in Iraq by trying to enlist with military recruiters in New York City's Times Square last October. Their arrest for disorderly conduct, trial and acquittal won them sympathy and headlines across...
...that her last name not be used, and worked out a strategy to help her become a better mother so she could get her baby back. Under their plan, Oksana agreed to get off drugs, secure a safe place to live, make regular postnatal hospital visits and, most important, enlist the support of family and friends to monitor her progress and her treatment of Chloe. It could be called the it-takes-a-village approach to child welfare...
Plans such as the one Oksana accepted still use the threat of removing a child from the home, but they also encourage troubled parents to enlist a support network--birth families, friends, in-laws, neighbors, nonprofit and government agencies--capable of interceding before a crisis develops. The results of this early-intervention approach, called Alternative Response, have been impressive. In Olmsted County, one of 20 counties that took part in a three-year pilot project, the recidivism rate for parents who went through the program tumbled from 16.1% in 2002 to just...
...they're cutting air pollution--even those in China--will get preferential treatment in the supply chain. Wal-Mart says it's working with consumer-product manufacturers to trim their packaging and will reward those that do so with prime real estate on the shelves. Scott has pledged to enlist Wal-Mart's army of lobbyists to push for pro-environmental policy changes in Washington, including incentives for utilities to cut greenhouse gases...
...Beijing this week, Putin and Hu agreed to coordinate their efforts to "solving the Iran nuclear issue through political and diplomatic means." That of course is the express desire of the U.S. and its allies, as well. Which means that if the U.S. is going to be able to enlist Russia and China as partners in solving the Iran nuclear impasse, it may have to heed some of their concerns in other arenas...