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...more than just white. At home in the U.S., a new crop of African-American activists like New Yorker Majora Carter and Oakland-based Van Jones are adopting environmentalism, fighting for clean air and water in the inner city or green jobs for the underemployed. Around the globe, Sanjayan notes, U.S. environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy have put local staffers in positions of authority. But more can and should be done. "As a conservation community, we badly need to do this," says Sanjayan. Diversity - in all its forms - should be a green goal...
...wrote a major profile of the Dalai Lama for TIME and later went to Tibet to report for us on what that peaceful society was going through under martial law. As fans of his travel writings know, Pico's curiosity has led him to nearly every corner of the globe, but he has always found himself returning to the monk in Dharamsala. He wrote another long piece on the Dalai Lama for us in 1997, so in a sense, Pico has been updating TIME readers on this figure of global fascination every 10 years...
Forget the falling dollar. All that penny-pinching tourists need to travel the globe is a willingness to try something different and access to a new breed of travel website...
...after being named to its 28-man roster for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament.“It was just a blast,” Stack-Babich says. “There were a bunch of major league and minor league guys we were playing with from all over the globe.”While it took a few years and a few thousand miles to find it, Stack-Babich now seems to have the self-assurance that he was missing in his first two seasons with the Crimson.“I feel much better,” he says...
...article in last Sunday’s Boston Globe revealed that less affluent communities in Massachusetts—including Springfield, Leominster, and Fitchburg—witnessed a marked increase in teen pregnancies in 2006, even as statewide, the same rate dropped two percent. Amid speculation about cultural causes and cuts to health education, the article concedes that there is no explanation for the increase—that, moreover, it may be nothing more than a “blip.” There is no clear evidence that this year’s uptick in teen pregnancy is anything more...