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...Gonzalez is one of an estimated 100,000 people in Peru who make a living diving through garbage to collect refuse - paper, metal, glass - that can be resold for a profit. It is a hardscrabble life, but one thing positive may now be handed to him and his fellow trash sifters: a new name for their profession...
...hard to see why. Shanties still line the same steel tracks on which José's tortured antihero Antonio Samson kills himself, after learning that his vapid high-society wife is having an affair. On a recent afternoon, naked boys skipped rope near piles of rotting trash. Meals bubbled over open fires, just feet from railroad ballast...
...will be expanded to $375 million next year, pulling another $6.6 million from Cambridge, as part of an effort to close a $1.1 billion shortfall in the state’s budget. The state provides local aid to cities and towns to support essential services like police, fire, and trash collection. The budget reduction is expected to force local officials state-wide to reduce or cut these services and lay off employees. “This is by far the worst financial situation we have had in the Commonwealth in the time that I’ve been an elected...
...shells") have harmed some who have reacted to the chemicals trapped inside. The much-touted compact fluorescent lightbulbs can increase symptoms in people with migraines and other conditions. Plus, if they break, they can release toxic mercury. And when one burns out, you can't toss it in the trash; you have to waste gas driving the bulb across the county to a toxic-waste disposal center. Karen M. Campbell, SACRAMENTO, CALIF...
...overproductive," he says. "It was too intense, so it all exploded at this time." Adds one of his colleagues: "As long as your finances are O.K., the extra hours are pretty cool. I can do things I couldn't before, like exercise, get with friends or take out the trash...