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The first warmth of spring on the streets of Chicago saw more young people outside of an evening, some after curfew, NBC's Kevin Tibbles told us. Mix in firearms and they face "a volatile, often deadly combination." A string of weekend shootings left eight dead, including an 18-year-old caught in the crossfire during a botched robbery: "Police say at least seven of the shootings involved juveniles"…the standard medication for Attention Deficit Disorder is a stimulant, NBC's Robert Bazell warned, that can aggravate some forms of heart disease. As many as one child in 50 has an undiagnosed heart condition. Since "an amazing 2.5m children in this country take stimulant medications," the American Heart Association recommends an electrocardiagram before Ritalin…to observe Earth Day, NBC launched its Greening the Earth series by sending Anne Thompson to Sweden, a country that plans to burn no fossil fuel by 2020. Stockholm streets are turned into pedestrian malls. Swedes leave their cars to ride bicycles. Oil will be replaced by "gasified wood."
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