Hot Dog Nights. JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. — Some neighbors in Jamaica Plain without a lot in common have found a way to get along. On one side of South Street live white collar professionals; on the other, low income people in a housing project. Bridging the divide are hot dogs. For ten years some of the neighbors have come together once a week in the summers for a cookout. WBUR’s Monica Brady-Myerov reports. VOICE: Hey you guys there’s hot dogs! MONICA BRADY-MYEROV: About a dozen kids and adults line up before a folding table packed with dogs, buns, chips and sides.
Under the shade of a tree, 10 year old Natalie Terrero is using disposable gloves to serve the hot dogs. NATALIE TERRERO: What do you want with it? MONICA BRADY-MYEROV: Terrero says she’s been coming to these weekly cookouts every Tuesday since she can remember and now she’s old enough to help. NATALIE TERRERO: I’m helping to do the hot dog night because I would love to volunteer.
MONICA BRADY-MYEROV: Hot dog night appears to be unique. HEAT WAVE: THE NATION; In Chicago, Week of Swelter Leaves an Overflowing Morgue. They came like a parade of death: police truck after police truck, delivering the bodies to the Cook County morgue, until finally there was no more room for the dead. Wicked heat is being blamed for hundreds of deaths across the eastern half of the country, and perhaps 300 deaths in Chicago alone, said Edmund Donoghue, the medical examiner for Cook County, where refrigerated trucks are being used to store the overflow from the morgue.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," said Dr. Donoghue. "We're overwhelmed. " The temperature hovered near 100 for most of the week in Chicago, peaking at 106 degrees on Thursday, and the humidity was extremely high. Health experts said the stress of such a long stretch of heat coupled with a lack of air-conditioning in many of the city's poorer neighborhoods was to blame for the high death toll. Temperatures fell to the low 90's by Saturday, and were expected to moderate early in the week. Dr. Though it hatched storms, the cool air was rushing in. UNNATURAL CAUSES | CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL. Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next. Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay. S. LA bans new stand-alone fast food eateries | abc7. EXPOSITION PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- New stand-alone fast food restaurants have been banned from setting up shop in South Los Angeles, due to rising health concerns by the city council.
How many fast food eateries does one area really need? The Los Angeles City Council thinks South Los Angeles and South East Los Angeles need new choices as these regions face an over-concentration of such restaurants. "This is not an attempt to control people as to what they can put into their mouths. This is an attempt to diversify their food options," said councilmember Jan Perry.
Perry's new plan bans new so-called "stand alone" fast food restaurants opening within half a mile of existing restaurants. Such stand-alone establishments are on their own property, but those same restaurants are OK if they're a part of a strip mall, according to the new rules. "Give a grocery store and a housing combination a chance to come in," Perry said.
Residents had mixed reactions to the new plan. (Copyright ©2014 KABC-TV/DT. Obesity Among US Immigrant Subgroups by Duration of Residence. Steroids, baseball, and climate change. Jim Hansen - 20 Years of Climate Concerns. Greenhouse effect (in a bottle) explained.