A Friendly Face

Here's a little bit of what I'm interested in these days...

"Numerous studies in fields ranging from social psychology to magazine cover design have proved that nothing grabs people's attention more than other people, especially other people's faces. We are hard-wired with a desire for congenial places to gather. That's why it's particularly surprising how much we overlook the importance of public places today."
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16107485&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

And how about this:

"In 1930, the United States had 262,000 school buildings. Today, there are 90,000. Sometimes called "sprawl schools," these facilities then require more bussing and more car trips, because the school is now too far away for students to walk or ride their bikes. This is an added factor in the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic -- one in three American children are overweight, and the additional car trips increase auto emissions, increasing air pollution."
http://www.alternet.org/story/31951/