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For certain people, old maps would be a great idea. (My dad, for example, would probably enjoy the map as much as the gift inside it.) A member of the Sierra Club says you might try something like butcher paper and have kids draw something on the paper. Club members also suggest making the wrapping part of the gift - such as in a scarf or a decorative box that can be re-used in some way. The "green" goal here is to find something other than many of the traditional types of wrapping paper. Apparently, the shiny varieties have ingredients that recycling plants can't handle. So that paper goes only to landfills. Here's your motivation to make a change. "If every household wrapped three gifts in this alternative way," the Sierra Club says, "we would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields and enough ribbon to tie a bow around the earth." December 7, 2007 -- 2:50 pm On Election Night, voters displayed -- among other things -- an anti-incumbent, "throw the bums" out attitude toward members of the Indianapolis City-County council. One Republican candidate for Congress says we may see the same thing, next year, directed toward people seeking seats in Washington. Dr.
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The dead girl's identity was not released Saturday, and the Snohomish County medical examiner wasn't expected to release any information until Monday.
Hover said the child's family requested time to grieve.
"The family asked that their privacy be respected," she said. "It's such a tragedy. Of course they're grieving."
The girl was a student at Harbour Pointe Middle School, said Andy Muntz, a Mukilteo School District spokesman.
The school plans to have grief counselors available Monday as news of the girl's death is shared with students, he said.
"I'm so sorry for the family," said Pam Dalan, who helps organize outdoor trips for the Everett Mountaineers.
Even people knowledgeable about the backcountry can get caught at the wrong place at the wrong time, she said.
Immigration boss admits ignoring new rules
We do take it seriously, but I want them to put their efforts where it produces the best results," she told BBC Radio Four's Today programme. Asked about the student visa system, she said: "Yes, in effect I am asking them to look again at how they apply these rules" Ms Homer insisted that her instructions to officers allowed them to use "use your common sense". But John Tincey of the Immigration Service Union said that frontline officers are increasingly left unable to exercise their own discretion about deportation cases as BIA managers dictate rigid rules on removals. "Common sense is being taken out of the system," he said. Mr Tincey said that financial shortfalls were forcing the BIA to ignore some illegal immigrants. "Student visa overstayers aren't on the list at all.
Terremark awarded GSA contract
Terremark Worldwide said its subsidiary, Terremark Federal Group, has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration schedule contract. The contract is for secure collocation services up to the TS/SCI -- Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information -- level. The Miami-based Internet hardware and infrastructure firm said Terremark Federal Group is the only company that has been awarded a GSA schedule contract offering collocation space that satisfies the government's requirements to be accredited a sensitive compartmented information facility. "This award is the result of our proven expertise in delivering fully managed federal-sector offerings to all customers interested in procuring them," Terremark Federal Group Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dos Santos said in a news release.
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