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...episode could just as well have been rooted in another kind of unease. Locke, long an academic underperformer, will come under new management in just a few weeks. After a protracted battle, L.A. Unified School District's board voted in the fall to turn it over to Green Dot Public Schools, a private non-profit that plans to turn the campus into a cluster of charter schools. Come July 1, many of Locke's teachers will be out of work. And students, worried about new policies like required uniforms, wonder whether there will still be a football team...
...demand, but supply. Agricultural production in places such as India has not kept up with the incredible social changes under way in the country's cities and towns. The green revolution of three decades ago helped keep the country from starvation, but since then productivity growth in Indian agriculture has hardly moved. Dan Toole, the South Asia regional director for the United Nations Children's Fund, says India is suffering from "a very serious neglect of agriculture in terms of investment." India, he says, "is perhaps the solution but is also part of the problem." What's needed is massive...
...earthquake that devastated parts of Sichuan province and reverberated across China. Residents of the town step around Zhang's corpse, watching idly as a backhoe moves rubble from a collapsed apartment building across the street. At the other corner of the block paramilitary soldiers in green uniforms climb over another flattened building, removing debris and searching for survivors inside. Beside Zhang's body lies another. This one is claimed. Family members dressed in white, the color of mourning in China, burn offerings and load the body into...
...visit the Zuzhile foot massage parlor across from the factory on Monday. The small shop suffered severe damage in the quake. Deng has less than a month before his college placement exams, and would normally be at school studying. Instead he watches People's Liberation Army troops in green use a crane to move away the debris from the shop. "They're trying to rescue my mom," Deng says. "I'm certain my mom was in there...
...Worse, it confirmed what many green activists had long feared - that the fig leaf Silva had provided her boss was stripped away, leaving his image unprotected and exposed, like the environment itself...