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When Pain is Your Running Partner
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Peggy Truong.
By Peggy Truong
At home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mark Wallace wasn’t able to walk without limping or grinding his teeth. But he was determined to run the New York City Marathon on Sunday. It’s one of the items on his to-do list, along with skydiving in Switzerland, running with the bulls in Spain and traveling to every continent.
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A Green Treat for Everyone
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Peggy Truong.
By Peggy Truong
A reading garden. Non-toxic cleaners and microfiber cloths. A Big Green Halloween festival and fundraiser that included carrier-bag decorating and composting lessons. These are a few of the ways that Public School 166 is embracing environmental education in and out of the classroom.
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A Fine Tune in Music and War
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Peggy Truong.
By Peggy Truong
Michael Comins carried a violin, not a rifle, when he served in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s. Comins was one of several hundred soldiers who played in the 7th Army Symphony. As a way to show Europe that Americans were not all about war and gangsters, the Pentagon created this cultural political tool.
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Ship Talk
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Peggy Truong.
By Peggy Truong
While New Yorkers flocked to Pier 88 to tour the Navy’s newest ship in November, the Marines and sailors aboard the USS New York were just as eager to tour Manhattan. Many of them are in the early 20s. When they are pier side, sightseeing and bars are instant luxuries.
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May Harvest in October
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Peggy Truong.
By Peggy Truong
At home in Richmond, British Columbia, Lisa May spends her days preparing for the upcoming harvest season or operating an excavator on her family’s cranberry farm. Since arriving in New York City on a recent October day, May and her family have been transformed into instant celebrities as they strode through an artificial cranberry bog set up in the middle of Rockefeller Center.
