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...authors suggest that parents and doctors should be extra vigilant when teens suddenly become vegetarians. Although teens may say they're trying to protect animals, they may actually be trying to camouflage some unhealthy eating behaviors...
Madoff arrived at court in a dark suit and bulletproof vest, and proceeded to deny his victims even the catharsis of a trial with his plan to plead guilty to 11 felony counts. That surrender enraged some who feared this was one more scam, to protect his family and conceal his true villainy. He still faces 150 years in prison. "I hope his time in jail will be hell on earth," said victim Joan Sinkin, 75, of Boynton Beach...
...North Dakota CRISIS AVERTED? Less than a week after the Red River reached record highs and threatened to cause disastrous flooding, Fargo residents weathered a blizzard and 40-m.p.h. winds while 3.5 million sandbags served as temporary levees to protect North Dakota's largest city. Though businesses, schools and streets have reopened, local officials are lobbying for permanent disaster-relief funding--in the past 12 years, the region has seen two hundred-year floods. As one city official said of Fargo's ceaseless battle with Mother Nature, "You kind of feel like it's a Bruce Willis film...
...Washington Keeping America Wild In a victory for nature lovers, a newly signed omnibus bill will protect some 2 million acres of wilderness, the most significant conservation effort in more than a decade. The legislation also protects 1,000 miles of scenic rivers and provides more federal protection to areas under the Bureau of Land Management...
...People cannot—and will not—protect what they do not know or understand. The general lack of understanding is what underlines the importance of changing the focus of the environmental movement. In order to successfully engage these communities, environmentalists can no longer rely upon scientific innovation and legal roadblocks. To actively protect the environment, policy requires engagement from groups outside the traditionally active white suburbanites...