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...will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAs and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, Avon, Ohio...
...childbirth," about Euna Chung's elective caesarean, was most disturbing. Trust me: suffering the effects of major invasive surgery is not a tidy way to do anything. Vaginal birth has been proven to be safest for moms and babies. It is irresponsible for TIME to suggest otherwise. Alana Brown, AVON...
...waste, which is important in a mountain climate in which food scraps can take as long as two years to decompose. "Our guests are interested in being green as long as they are comfortable," says Bob Trotter, general manager of the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, which will open in Avon, Colo., this spring. "And it's possible to do both. Our riverfront park is a beautiful amenity, but it's also designed to preserve the natural wetlands habitat. Good design benefits us all." In modest ways, skiing green can benefit the planet too. An Eco-Friendly Course Barriers and Solutions...
...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...Robert Harvard ventured out of bustling London to find a wife in the sleepy market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. In a house a short stroll from the home of William Shakespeare’s family, Harvard successfully courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake—John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life...