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...called upon to put money back into a flood area if the community hasn't done its part by enforcing the ordinance," says David Schein, FEMA's senior flood-plain-management specialist. That essentially means the only assistance the Federal Government is likely to provide is temporary shelter and food. "That's really humanitarian," snaps Ellett. "We don't have million-dollar homes here. We have $30,000 and $20,000 homes. And we're hurting...
...case of good intentions going astray. The Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in the suburbs north of Austin was facing a problem voiced by shelters across the country - an abundance of black cats and dogs. And so management decided to run a special promotion offering lower adoption fees during "Black Is Beautiful" week. Unfortunately, the promo campaign was scheduled for the same week Texans were set to celebrate Juneteenth, heralding the anniversary of the arrival in 1867 of the delayed news of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery. Local civil rights leaders were critical and chagrined shelter officials...
...question remains for shelter operators across the country: Why does it appear that black dogs, particularly the large ones, and black cats are unadoptable? The phenomenon has been dubbed "black dog syndrome." Is it superstition? Black cats are considered unlucky by some. Is it mythology? Big black dogs have been portrayed as symbols of death in literature and legend, cast as bad guys in movies like The Omen, and even featured in modern stories like the dog Grim in the Harry Potter tales...
...work out any kinks but hope it will grow to many times that. "We need to get bigger if we want to make a dent in congestion and pollution," says Jim Sebastian, planner for the district's department of transportation. And just like Paris, Washington is using bus-shelter ad space to pay for the program. Clear Channel's outdoor-advertising unit paid for the exclusive right to sell shelter ads and is pouring a percentage of that revenue into a scalable system that ties in with city bus and subway routes. Says Martina Schmidt, the company's SmartBike director...
...gathering dust in your home could be page-turners at a library, school or senior-citizen center. And those skinny clothes that you'll probably never fit into again could be doing a whole lot more than making you feel bad; take them to a charity shop or shelter...