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...flooding in pockets but have fared relatively well so far, compared to eastern Iowa (and to the 1993 flood). There's relief that the downtown area has largely been spared major damage, thanks to bolstered flood protection post-1993. But feverish attempts to bolster a levee near a neighborhood north of downtown ultimately failed. Watching televised scenes of water rushing over destroyed sandbags into streets where people live and work was not what my teenage son and I, among hundreds of volunteer sandbaggers in Des Moines, had hoped to see. But like many, we expect to help more...
...GEMs certainly aren't the answer to the nation's need for a decent, inexpensive electric car. First of all, they're not that inexpensive - considering what you get, the GEM's price seems a bit too steep. And while the car might work around a small neighborhood, or a dense city like New York, Americans increasingly commute longer and longer distances - an electric car will only work if it can drive the way a gas-powered vehicle can. No auto company has achieved that yet, but the good news is that after years of ignoring electric car research, almost...
...Working alongside dozens of other Iowans - from the Des Moines area as well as from towns hours away - who felt compelled to do something, anything, my 16-year-old son and I spent several hours filling sand bags to try to support levees near a threatened north Des Moines neighborhood along the swiftly rising Des Moines River...
Ludwig's clinic at children's hospital, Optimal Weight for Life, offers a glimpse of the diversity of childhood obesity in the U.S. The clinic straddles the border between the wealthy neighborhood of Brookline and the poorer areas of Roxbury and Dorchester, and Ludwig's patients--black, white, Hispanic--are drawn from around the city. Ludwig's unique weight-control program focuses on the glycemic index of his patients' diets, attempting to reduce the sharp ups and downs in blood-sugar levels that he believes encourage children to overeat. That means cutting back severely on the highly processed carbohydrates that...
...Angeles' Pico-Union neighborhood, just west of downtown, you can see what kids and their parents are up against. Outside Union Avenue Elementary School in this mostly working-class Latino community, an army of street vendors selling potato chips, candy and ice cream has set up shop, waiting for schoolchildren to be released by the afternoon bell. Technically, it's against city ordinances for the vendors to operate near school grounds during the day, but no one is stopping them. Elizabeth Medrano--an activist with the Healthy School Food Coalition and the mother of a 9-year-old boy--tours...