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The Greenasium really wants to be green. To do it, the new gym in San Diego is turning its customers into real gym rats. The Greenasium , which opened Wednesday, has three specialty spin bikes that push electricity back into the grid, helping provide power to the gym and other electricity customers. Its the first human-powered fitness studio in San Diego, according to its owners. "The bike's are retrofitted by a company up in Seattle that we work with called Resource Fitness," said Greenasium's co-owner Byron Spratt. "As the bike (spins), the wheel creates DC power, converts it to AC...

A young boy kicks a soccer ball as his team shows off their skills following the Al-Jazeera gymnasium opening in Baghdad, June 6. Photo by Pfc. Bailey Anne Jester, Multi-National Division Baghdad. BAGHDAD — Iraqi children in northeast Baghdad now have a new place to play, thanks to the efforts of Iraqi and U.S engineers. Both were on hand in the Adhamiyah district here for the opening of the al-Jazeera gymnasium, June 6. "This gym provides the children in the neighborhood a place to enjoy sports without having to play in the streets,” said Inez Bergerson, a civil engineer with...

HOODED youths firebombed a police station next to the Exarchia district where locals held a silent vigil for a teenager who was killed a week ago. Police fired tear gas and were in hot pursuit of a group of about 100 youths who had congregated there - with similar numbers in Thessaloniki also vandalising a gymnasium before holing up in university premises. The fresh outbreak of hostilities ...