Mix and Match

By Debra Viadero

St.Louis

Perched atop laboratory stools, eight students in Freda Hill's 7th-grade science class are swapping notes about their field trip the previous day to a local steam-heating plant.

"The Ashley Street plant has been operating since 1988," says a small blond girl. "It was called a trash energy facility, but at the time, there were a lot of...

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