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There are practical benefits to having trees planted in yards or along community streets, including removing large quantities of pollution from the air, saving energy and reducing cooling costs, increasing home values of homes, improving state of mind, increasing pride in local communities, helping

My questions were rendered as English text on his screen, sometimes accurately, sometimes not. His Dari answers were delivered by a female voice with an English accent. Some of her translations were baffling. Some were weirdly eloquent. I explained that I was an Αmerican journalist and was curious

  Let’s cut right to the chase. I want to talk about a proverbial “elephant in the room” that has been ignored for far too long. This country, and the world for that matter, has a problem when it comes to addressing the growing mental health crisis. It’s about time that we confronted this…