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...BIRTH OF THE BEEF: Fifteen years after Bronx M.C.s like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five pioneered hip-hop, New York City rapper Tim Dog's 1991 single F___ Compton took aim at the growing L.A. scene and, with it, Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Knight, for his part, focused his ire on a brash young New York producer named, back then, Puff Daddy...
Conservationists saved a few--there were probably more bison at the Bronx Zoo in 1900 than there were in all of Oklahoma--and gradually bison were reintroduced to natural habitats like the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. But it wasn't until the '70s, when ranchers began acquiring bison with an eye toward encouraging a boutique meat market (Native Americans, Old West enthusiasts, health nuts), that the species rebounded in numbers significant enough to ensure genetic diversity and protection against disasters like that 1841 freeze. Today private owners care for 97% of the world's bison population, according to Cormack Gates...
...everybody can serve, what makes people take the first step? "It's fun, and it's better than watching TV," says Michael Cruz, 17, a 10th-grader at Grace Dodge High School in the South Bronx. At an age when most kids are more interested in sleeping late and hanging out, Michael and more than 1,000 other middle and high schoolers in 16 cities across the country are getting up early on Saturday mornings for a full day of community service in the City Year Young Heroes program...
...recent Saturday morning in the Bronx, where there are more people living with HIV/AIDS than in most states, a team of about 15 Young Heroes gathered in a circle, trading colored candies with one another. Each student started with 10 colored candies and directions on whether they could trade freely or on a restricted basis. But one student had only green candies, which, unknown to the group, symbolized HIV. After about 10 minutes of talking and joking, the group leader called the team to order, directed the students to count their colored candies and revealed what the green ones represented...
Doing good can become a habit. Cruz, a high school swimmer who works part-time at the Bronx Zoo, has been in the Young Heroes program for three years. He joined in middle school and despite his busy schedule asked to continue as a Young Hero until City Year gets its planned high school program, City Heroes, under way. He says his favorite service day so far has been visiting a local nursing home, where he played cards with the elderly residents, listened to their stories and even gave a few of them manicures...