LOS ANGELES — Every morning he made the journey: the walk to the bus stop through South Central, the bus to Vernon Station, the blue-line train to Long Beach and his high school.
DeSean Jackson was a freshman at Long Beach Polytechnic High then, and some mornings were peaceful, and others were not. One side of a road might be Neighborhood Crips territory, the other patrolled by Bloods, the Rollin 40s or any of the 300 street gangs in Los Angeles. Read More...
By Sophie HardachFeatures correspondent
Island ConservationThe Palmyra atoll was an uninhabited tropical paradise – until the rats arrived (Credit Island Conservation)Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path.
During World War Two, the US military stationed thousands of sailors on the Palmyra Atoll, a ring of pristine, coral-fringed islets in the Central Pacific Ocean. Read More...
12 Rounded to the Nearest Tenth To round 12 to the nearest tenth consider the hundredths’ value of 12, which is 0 and less than 5. Therefore, the tenths value of 12 remains 0.Click to see full answer. Furthermore, how do you round to the nearest tenth?To round to the nearest tenth, write down the number with a decimal point, and find the tenths place directly to the right of the decimal. Read More...