| Bad gas has motorists fuming
MOUNT PLEASANT — Rosemary Palonis' troubles all started when she picked up the nozzle to refuel her car Monday afternoon.It was the start of a nightmare for the Chicago resident, who came here to visit her sister, Patricia Palonis, for Super Bowl weekend. Monday Rosemary was ready to head home with her two daughters and two grandchildren.But when she paid for her gasoline at MJ Petroleum, 2325 Racine St., and tried to start her car, Palonis said, “It went about 20 feet, and the whole car shut off, and it wouldn't start."“My daughter said, ‘Mom, it has to be the gas.'" .
Feel-good brain-booster
Speaking at last week's Montreal International Game Summit, McGill psychology professor and MindHabits creator Mark Baldwin said just as playing Tetris for hours on end can have you seeing falling blocks in your dreams, a game like MindHabits can sculpt and reinforce new ways of thinking. "There's a lot of potential for using the repetitive, interactive nature of games to train patterns of thought that research has already shown are beneficial," said Baldwin, who wears multiple hats as MindHabits Inc.'s president and chief scientific officer. .
50,000 trees planted in Trinity River wildlife refuge
For a partnership looking for ways to improve the Houston area's environment, the math made sense. First, plant 50,000 seedling trees on 158 acres of logged pasture in the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge east of Houston. In return, the restored forest will remove carbon dioxide a potent greenhouse gas linked to global warming equivalent to what 3,000 average Americans use in fossil fuels in a year. The $250,000 project was completed this month by five corporate and nonprofit groups who partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the 23,000-acre reserve on the Trinity River in Liberty County. The other participants include Dell Inc.; Travelocity; NBC Universal; Environmental Synergy Inc., a reforestation company based in Atlanta; and The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit environmental group, based near Washington, D.C.
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