In recent years, vegetarianism has become a popular destination among young people — more teenagers forgo meat in favor of plant foods. In the United school district of Los Angeles decided to take note of this trend. With the new academic year high school students from local schools will be easier to observe the eating habits — a pilot program in the menu, some schools have added vegetarian options. Meat…

Despite the catastrophic floods in Texas, life goes on and children continue to be born. After all, the new inhabitants of our planet have nothing to do the weather — they can’t wait to be born. On Sunday, in the midst of hurricane

So, the day has come. This morning NYC Ferry has launched a new, fourth, the water route that connects Astoria in Queens and Wall Street. The ferry system serves over 1.5 million passengers since launching in may, now their number will increase significantly. 93% of respondents, according to the city authorities, very happy with the service and happy to use the services of a NYC Ferry. Route «Astoria» begins with…

This is the rat world, and we live in it. In big cities rodents live a happy and rich: they have a place to hide, lots of delicious food, not to starve and plenty of time to harass their two-legged neighbors. But new York has its heroes — small, furry, sharp-toothed heroes. A «squad» of dogs hunting rats all over the city, protecting people from the tailed pests. The society…

Based on data from a new government report, about 8.8% of the population had no health insurance for the first three months of this year. According to the report of Center for control and prevention of diseases, about 28 million people in the United States was not insured from January to March. This is 500,000 less than in the same period last year, but such changes in the statistics are…

The owner of furniture stores in Houston have turned their stores into shelters for those who lost their homes during hurricane Harvey. The man said that the people supported him in difficult times, and now he wants to repay kindness with kindness, writes USA Today. On Sunday, after the hurricane has covered Houston’s Jim «Mattress Mack» Mcingvale, owner of Gallery Furniture stores, gathered volunteers, started the engines of their trucks…

Faced with criticism of the plan, offering to remove from new York some monuments, including the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle, mayor bill de Blasio decided to resort to Plan B, which he said on Monday. The mayor suggested not to demolish controversial monuments, and add to them special tablets, which will contain information about historical figures who dedicated the statue. De Blasio says that, most likely, many…

Thousands of calls for help received on the hotline in Houston. State, local and military rescue teams to literally «pull» people out of the water and flooded homes. The chief of the city police Art Acevedo said that the number saved is more than 3.4 thousand. Countless residents were trapped in their abandoned homes since the hurricane. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee announced that Houston can be tens of thousands of…

In the United States, the car is an integral and absolutely necessary part of everyday life. The entire infrastructure of suburbs and small towns, where live the major part of Americans, built considering the fact that each resident has their own machine. Very rare here, except in the middle of a big city, you can find something like a Russian grocery store, or «shop stop». Major shopping malls – malls…