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Isabella Rose Taylor-website portrait

Preteen Designer Hailed at Fashion Week for Style — and Brains

Fashion prodigy Isabella Rose Taylor isn't just an artist, painter and designer, the pre-teen girl from Austin is a super student who just started...
Mississippi boy saves drowning girl

10 Year-old Hero Saves Girl, Says ‘Just Doing What’s Needed’

When their teacher asks the students in his class, 'What did you do on your summer vacation,' ten-year-old Austin Beach will have them all...
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Marching to Their Own Beat: Brass Band Keeps Youngsters From Gang Life

Every Friday morning 17-year-old Sarel Ramphele puts on his gold-trimmed suit, grabs his trumpet and walks the 6 kilometers to the neighboring village. Under...
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Chicago Tribune Sends Pizzas and Thanks to Boston Globe Newsroom

On Monday, the newspaper staff that had been working overtime in Boston to cover the tragic events of their city found a welcome gift...
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The Man Behind a Military Patch that President Obama Prizes

When Barack Obama was still a Senator running for president, a black elevator operator, Earl Smith, shared a moment with him at the Hyatt...
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Krispy Kreme Worker Knows Customer Service (Video Goes Viral of her Super Service)

Jia Jiang has designed a unique type of therapy to address his fear of rejection. As a young businessman, he wants to toughen himself...
Uncle Sam Hack Awesome Stuff

A Peace Corps for Geeks? Nonprofit Donates Apps to Cities

Code for America is a new kind of public service. Volunteer teams have developed apps that have trimmed Boston's costs for digging out fire...
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Teen Builder of ‘Tiny House’ Finishes Dorm on Wheels

Teenager Austin Hay completed construction on a tiny house with wheels that he had begun during his sophomore year of high school. The home includes...
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15-Year-Old Dog Survives Two Months in the Wild

After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept...
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23-Year-old ‘Hears Music’ for the First Time: Mozart Blew Me Away

Austin Chapman was born "profoundly deaf" and says he never understood why people were so moved by music. But that changed two weeks ago,...
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Man Finds Beloved Stolen Sports Car After 40 years

One night last month, Bob Russell, who was unable to sleep, climbed out of bed and sat down at his computer to do some...
Concert proposal onstage with Foster the People

Surprise Marriage Proposal for Fan at Foster the People Concert

Will Staney contacted the rock band, Foster the People, via Twitter, asking if he could 'pop the question' to his girlfriend on their stage...
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15 California Parks Rescued by Generous Donation

Last year, when the California Department of Parks and Recreation announced that one quarter of the state's parks would be shut down due to...
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Stray Pit Bull Saves a Woman and Child From Attacker (Video)

A Florida woman named Angela was leaving a playground with her toddler in Port Charlotte when a man approached her in the parking lot...
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Inner City Black Kids Dominate Rich Man’s Sport, Win Polo Championship

Polo is expensive, exclusive and played mostly by wealthy white men. But that didn't matter to Lezlie Hiner. In 1996, she started the first-ever...
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Teen’s Video About Death Inspires Millions One Week After he Succumbs to Heart Condition

Millions now know his name. After cheating death three times, Ben Breedlove, 18, finally lost his life on Christmas day, but not before leaving a...
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Bamboo Packaging on Dell Computers Saves 70,000 Trees

All the hard-to-recycle packaging that keeps new Dell computers snug in their cartons but ends up in landfills is being replaced by environmentally-friendly bamboo...
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Country Stars Raise $500,000 for Texas Fire Victims

Willie Nelson joined George Strait, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians for a mega-concert in Austin that raised more than a half million dollars...
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Many US Cities Still Thriving Despite the Economy

Newsweek rated American cities on their job creation, sustainability, livability and transportation-infrastructure, to cull a list of the nation’s top performing metropolises. Of the 20...
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Despite More Gadgets, Power Demand From U.S. Homes is Falling

American homes are more cluttered than ever with devices, and they all need power. But something shocking is happening to demand for electricity in...