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...Nine years before Rosa Parks' defiance set off the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman returning to Baltimore from Virginia, refused to cede her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...
...animal cruelty would continue to persist unless individuals and society chose to lead alternative lifestyles. During the event, “Facing Animals,” the panelists told the crowd of more than 150 that ways to make a difference in the area included putting an end to greyhound racing, eating meat, and cosmetic testing. Sunstein also recommended that hunting be banned if “there isn’t any other purpose except for sport or game.” “Scientists are exempted from cruelty laws, and in hunting, hunters are almost always excluded...
...school or held a job, and they lack the skills to do so. In Wisconsin 70% of prisoners struggle with drug or alcohol addiction. "If we don't want to see them again and again, we've got to offer them more than the clothes on their backs, a Greyhound ticket and $15 in their pocket," says Dolan, referring to aid cons receive when they leave prison. Even those who participated in substance-abuse counseling and the few education and job-training programs available while inside say those initiatives didn't prepare them for life back on the streets...
...much are those fees? That depends on what kind of deal you can strike. When Ridester's overhead is factored in, a trip from Phoenix, Ariz., to Los Angeles arranged on the site would cost you $37, about $12 less than Greyhound and at least $100 less than Amtrak...
...monthly remittances from the general store he runs. Those remittances have built Zamir a life he could never have dreamed of as a kid, allowing him to indulge in hobbies few Pakistanis can afford - like dog racing. On his last visit to see his son, he purchased a prize greyhound, whose registered name - Beer Rebel Heaven - Zamir struggles to pronounce. "I just call him Jaggu," he says, meaning powerful. Many Pakistanis have dogs, but few treat them as pets, as Islam considers dogs to be unclean. Things are a little different here in the Mirpur district of Kashmir. "Here people...