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...world's economic leaders had visited Houston a few years ago, they would have found a down-at-the-heels oil town. Not anymore. Across the city last week, thousands of bag-toting volunteers scoured streets and back alleys for litter. Others painted over graffiti and planted hundreds of red begonias. Freshly remodeled hotels stocked up on ethnic food; civic workers conducted courtesy classes for taxi drivers; and the police readied 125 new patrol cars for escort duty...
...because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain, and every villain has at least a shank, a homemade knife. Black and Aryan gangs feud murderously. Studs and lovers brutalize each other. And Joe, of course, misses Kitty Litter, his stripper girlfriend. But he is an outcast, and jail is where, when you go there, they have to take...
...often official America seems willing to let the rest of its own society go by too. It pretends the tabloid atrocities on TV news shows are aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland...
Adopt-a-beach. Thousands of volunteers will hit the California coastline from San Diego to Oregon, to clear litter and refuse off the beaches...
...Litter lift. More than 60,000 citizens, including students, officials and civic and business leaders, are expected to fan out along 9 km (15 miles) of Winnipeg, Canada, roadways to pick up trash and debris...