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In one of the city's poorest areas, residents who recycle trash by hand and a handful of environmental activists are slowly improving their community. Their efforts serve as an unlikely model for environmental change in an age of global warming.

Forbidden Kingdom

Japan's youngest post-war leader, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is resigning. His decision to step down after less than a year in office follows a humiliating electoral defeat for his party and a series of financial scandals involving members of his cabinet.

French people agree Chirac was an energetic and effective leader on the world stage, but indecisive and weak when it came to enacting reforms at home.

On Thursday, the San Diego San Diego County Fire Chiefs' Association and Fire Districts' Association unveiled a ten-point plan to create a more organized and effective regional fire system. Reporter H

RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis) is a savvy raccoon with a seemingly bottomless golf bag full of goodies. He may be a wild critter but he seems to have learned a lot about the materialistic consumerism of humans. As the film opens, he attempts to get junk food from the local park's vending machine. When he fails to satisfy his hunger, he turns to the goodies lying in the cave of a hibernating grizzly. But burly old Vincent (Nick Nolte) wakes just in time to witness the accidental destruction on all his winter goods'as well as his favorite red wagon and blue ice chest. RJ is naturally to blame and Vincent holds the rascally raccoon responsible for restocking the den. This prompts RJ to head towards a new housing complex that's just sprouted up on the edge of a tiny forest. Here RJ finds just the 'foragers' he'll need if he's to fill grizzly's order for junk food within the week timeframe he's been given. But Verne (the cautious turtle voiced by Gary Shandling) is suspicious both of RJ and of the ominous world of suburbia that lies just over the hedge.

San Diego's mayor elect, former police chief Jerry Sanders, chose to make the focus of his first press conference public safety and disaster preparedness. He also showed his support for the city's p

After each new film he makes, Hayao Miyazaki says it will be his last. Thats because the 64-year-old filmmaker still draws some of his own animation and his vision has been getting progressively worse. So fans will be thrilled with the release of yet another Miyazaki anime, this one based on a childrens novel, Howls Moving Castle (opening June 10 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas).

Howl's Moving Castle

Pfc. Jessica Lynch returns home to a flag-waving welcome in Palestine, W.Va., and speaks to the media for the first time since her dramatic rescue in April. Lynch had been recuperating at an Army hospital in Washington, D.C., from injuries she received when her unit was ambushed in Iraq March 23. Hear Jeff Young of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.