Friends' yearlong pact ends up reshaping their shopping habits
A San Francisco group called The Compact spent 2006 avoiding new purchases while allowing essentials. The experiment, spurred by a dinner discussion among 12 eco minded friends, led to surprising ease in finding secondhand or free goods and a resolve to continue the pact for another year.
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Commuter hero saves man on subway tracks in New York
Wesley Autrey saved Cameron Hollopeter after both fell onto the track at 137th Street City College station as a No 1 train approached. Autrey shielded Hollopeter in the drainage trough, two inches from the wheels, before transit crews stopped the vehicle. Hollopeter, 19, from Littleton Massachusetts, attends the New York Film Academy. Autrey’s act drew praise from Hollopeter’s family who call him an angel.
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Disarming Mogadishu Faces Resistance as New Government Takes Hold
In Mogadishu the push to disarm follows Prime Minister Gedi's call for weapon surrender though residents, police and militia leaders resist. Citizens fear vulnerability and mix of Ethiopian forces, Islamic Courts remnants, and ongoing violence shape attitudes toward disarmament.
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Violence in Gaza claims five lives amid street clashes
In Beit Lahiya gun battles between Fatah and Hamas spill from a roof shooting that kills Ala Mohammad Inaya and injures 17. A bystander woman dies, Hamas claims an accidental shot, while Fatah says an unarmed relative fired. In Khan Yunis, deputy chief of Preventive Security is abducted and three Fatah officers die in an attack on their hospital convoy.
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