Positive news from New Mexico
NM school goes from worst to among best in 3 yearsFifth grader Darius Yazzie's after-school chores include hauling water for horses and feeding chickens, while his classmate, Shanika Begay, rides a bus 15 miles each way through the rolling hills of this impoverished corner of the Navajo Nation.
"We worked so hard on it, and I'm proud of myself because I amaze myself by what I can do."
- Darius Yazzie, student |
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NM school goes from worst to among best in 3 yearsFifth grader Darius Yazzie's after-school chores include hauling water for horses and feeding chickens, while his classmate, Shanika Begay, rides a bus 15 miles each way through the rolling hills of this impoverished corner of the Navajo Nation. |
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Federal agency spurs people to adopt older wild mustangs with a new incentive programA federal agency is hoping older wild mustangs rounded up from the range will find new homes with a program that will offer stipends to owners who adopt them. |
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Traffic deaths decline as more people are buckling upIt’s becoming increasingly safer on the roads. |
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Vast Public Lands Package Gets Second Chance in SenateWashington, D.C., USA - Last week, we reported that the House fell two votes shy of passing the omnibus public lands, water, and natural resources bill. |
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Charter schools help jail inmates graduateAlbuquerque, New Mexico, USA - Albert Aragon dreams of working in real estate one day, but the 29-year-old jail inmate is a high school dropout who believes employers don't hire people with general equivalency diplomas. |
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Vegan farming takes organic to next levelALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The tradition of farming the land in northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley had been passed down from Don Bustos' Spanish ancestors, who tilled the same soil centuries before. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Bottling Wind PowerDallas Center, Iowa, USA - Business Week says "the future is taking shape under the windswept corn and soybean fields outside Dallas Center, Iowa," where a group of Midwest utilities is building a facility where excess wind power will be stored underground. |
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Feds Initiate Reform of Mismanaged Mexican Wolf Recovery ProgramAlbuquerque, New Mexico, USA - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today in the Federal Register its intent to establish new regulations to revive its flagging endangered Mexican gray wolf recovery program in New Mexico and Arizona. |
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