"Don't Walk" Signs in Dallas
We were eating at a cafe along McKinney Avenue in Dallas. McKinney Avenue is a busy street, filled with a large number of sports bars and restaurants and also having a streetcar line connecting Downtown with Uptown. There's lots of foot traffic and auto traffic. Just then traffic started to back up, and then came the sirens. Being the curious sort....

The Learning Garden
It's on an unassuming corner of Venice Boulevard in the far western reaches of los Angeles, only a couple of miles from the beach and the famous boardwalk. Even the folksy sign announcing "The Learning Garden" is painted in rustic hues that almost disappear into the shrubbery crowded up behind the fence....

What Makes a Healthy City?
Assessing a city's "health" has nothing to do with the impossibility of stuffing an entire metropolis into a primary care physician's waiting room. Defining a healthy city is a multi-layered and fluid process that involves the contributions of policies and practices to the quality of life of the city's inhabitants.

The Other American Tea Party
In many American homes, hot tea has long been reserved for people with colds. The unspoken idea: healthy people get coffee while those under the weather get stuck with the stale chamomile from the far reaches of the pantry. In many other countries, tea has long been revered....

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