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South Bronx Sophomores Take the Role of Urban Environmentalists
By David Whelan
Anthony Thomas, a high-school sophomore, spends almost every afternoon and weekend working as an environmental activist in his blighted neighborhood in New York's South Bronx. He is one of an estimated 50,000 teenagers -- a majority of whom live below the poverty line -- who are crammed into a square-mile tract of land, home to one of...