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...These are among the very most adaptive of all wildlife - look around us, city parks, bar ditches, drainages, every pond and private lake, large impoundments, creeks, streams, rivers, even literally temporary potholes - yet they are all actively supporting some level of turtle population," Popplewell says. "State public waters are huge and so are private waters... and the turtles got there by default - especially in private waters... the turtles arrive and thrive, everywhere...
What’s even more worrisome is that when transatlantic air-travel is deregulated under the “Open Skies” treaty, which comes into effect in less than a year, traffic across the pond could increase by as much as 55 percent, according to estimates published in USA Today. The treaty will enable airlines to apply the ultra-cheap model to much longer, more heavily polluting flights...
...place like the Fresh Pond Apartments, where parents work multiple jobs or are immigrants unfamiliar with city bureaucracy, this lack of easily accessible information can disproportionately affect their ability to make informed decisions about the future of their children...
...acknowledged that “some families in Cambridge don’t know much about the Graham and Parks school,” and said the school had arranged for their family liaison to make a special trip to the Fresh Pond Apartments...
...Cole, who as Fresh Pond Apartments resident service coordinator said he actively encourages Fresh Pond residents to involve themselves more in their children’s education, lacked, like Adugna and the other parents, the tools he needed for the task. To Cole, who had never heard of some of the schools in the district, those options remained light years away...