Word: programing
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...militia to protect the city from McGee's group. Other whites distributed racist literature in local factories. McGee's proposal to extend a street named for King into white areas seems doomed. He has also lost a fight in the council to transfer control of a jobs program from the county to the city. "We've got two worlds here," he said dejectedly after that defeat. "One black. One white. And there's an invisible Berlin Wall that separates...
...forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate of $50 an acre. So far, Jiro and his friends have raised more than...
...program began in Sweden, where some 100,000 schoolchildren, helped by matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in Belize. Among the participants: a class of autistic children in the Bronx who cashed in enough cans to buy an acre of species-rich jungle...
...Georgian Helsinki Union has drafted an economic program that attempts to prove that the republic can survive alone. Georgia not only can feed itself but also has sufficient reserves of oil, coal and hydroelectricity to meet its energy needs. Furthermore, the republic boasts mineral deposits plus undeveloped forests, Black Sea beaches and Caucasus mountain peaks. The major drawback for Georgia, argues the document, is that "its energies are constrained by the limits of an economic system imposed from the outside." The union proposes "shock treatment" for one year to build a free market out of the republic's thriving underground...
Behind the concerts and the fanfare, a quiet revolution is greening the country from the grass roots up. -- Report card: How well are nations addressing environmental problems? -- Program guide: A sampling of Earth Day events...