EARTH DAY

Washington Post Staff Writers David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin describe Earth Day’s journey on its 40th anniversary. For the article, they interviewed a handful of the 20-somethings who worked 15-hour days in Washington to create the holiday in 1970.

In those days, the article stated, the group worked for then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), who died in 2005. Nelson wanted to promote environmental issues after he visited an oil spill in Santa Barbara, Calif. His idea was to have a “teach in,” for getting voters aware of these issues.

Many in Washington at the time didn’t need much education, however. The article said the Potomac River was heavily polluted, and the news of Cleveland's Cuyahoga River catching on fire was fresh. In 1966, New York smog was blamed from killing more than 150 people, and the bald eagles numbered fewer than 2,000 because of the pesticide DDT.

With help from the group, the first Earth Day rallies were held in New York, Washington and Albuquerque. Events were held at colleges and in classrooms, and the article estimated one in 10 Americans participated.

ANTI BULLYING ZONE

School bullying is widespread across the United States. Each day an estimated 160,000 children refuse to go to school because they dread the physical and verbal aggression of their peers, and the loneliness that comes from being excluded and made the target of rumors and cyber-bullying. Many more students attend school in a chronic state of anxiety.the goal is to stop the bulllying or to prevent it cause millions of kids get affected by it everyday.

Sports News

Reggie Bush won the 2005 Heisman Trophy as a running back at the University of Southern California, then skipped his senior year to sign a six-year contract with the New Orleans Saints worth a guaranteed $26.3 million. He gained 6,617 all-purpose yards in college and joined USC's impressive list of past Heisman honorees, including his teammate, Matt Leinart (2004), Carson Palmer (2002), and the infamous O.J. Simpson (1968). Starting in 2006, news organizations alleged that Bush and his family had accepted as much as $300,000 in cash and goods from a prospective sports marketer while he was at USC -- which, if true, would have violated student-athlete regulations. Bush has denied wrongdoing, the alleged source of the payments has sued, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association is investigating. Meantime, knee injuries caused him to miss 10 games in the 2007 and 2008 seasons.