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...their own garbage to designated sites and in exchange receive bags of surplus vegetables from the city. A woman named Lindamir Vas Floriano says that before this so-called green-exchange program, her hilly neighborhood was completely carpeted with trash and plagued by disease. Now the area is almost litter free, and the people are noticeably healthier...
...HOUSE IS NOT A HOME WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN A cardboard box. Or when city officials want to sweep you away like litter when the tourists come to town. In a ruling designed to offer some civil rights, if not civility, to the homeless, a federal judge in Miami has ordered the city to set up two "safe zones," where those without addresses can eat, sleep and bathe without being arrested. Although the decision applies to Miami, similar legal challenges to anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami...
...lord's castle too that peasants and their flocks sought refuge from wolf packs and barbarian invaders. In 999, however, castles, like most other buildings in Europe, were made of timber, far from the granite bastions that litter today's imagined Middle Ages. The peasants, meanwhile, were relegated to their simple huts, where everyone -- including the animals -- slept around the hearth. Straw was scattered on the floors to collect scraps as well as human and animal waste. Housecleaning consisted of sweeping out the straw...
...conversation--they are reality. Next year--as we move into a job, a graduate school or unemployment--Harvard will be far behind us. Harvard will become a topic of conversation. So we need to plan now. In our final year of undergraduate frolicking at fair Harvard, we must litter our lives with admissions tests, graduate school applications, job interviews and dozens of fellowship attempts. It's an awful lot to do. And on top of the mundane mechanics of post-graduate preparation is the basic question that can drive any senior crazy: What do I really want to do with...
There are good things for people in the Square to be against. Litter, garish advertising and lousy architecture, for instance. But McDonald's is a red herring in all three cases...