Last month in Geneva, Bill Gates laid out his vision for the impact that broadening access to vaccines can have on the world.
Now, only a few weeks after his inspirational speech, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has promised to cut a whopping 95% off its rotavirus vaccine for sale to the globe’s poorest countries, while Merck has also said it would cut the price on its vaccine against the same illness, which causes diarrhoea.
A small Catholic school was presented with a check for one hundred thousand dollars during an an unforgettable assembly celebrating recycling. The 150 students at St. Pascal School performed beyond expectations, collecting more than 300,000 recyclable containers during a 3 month period. They beat out every other school in the country to win the title and generous check.
The school plans to use the money on “green” projects like converting their computer center to run on solar.
(WATCH the video from Greenopolis, or READ the story in CBS Chicago)
A small Catholic school was presented with a check for one hundred thousand dollars during an an unforgettable assembly celebrating recycling. The 150 students at St. Pascal School performed beyond expectations, collecting more than 300,000 recyclable containers during a 3 month period. They beat out every other school in the country to win the title and generous check.
The school plans to use the money on “green” projects like converting their computer center to run on solar.
Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday.
“Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon,” said the study which looked at 68 countries and was published in the online journal PLoS One.
National Football League players are rallying around a ten year-old boy whose mother, in desperation, drove him and his siblings into the river. Now that his family is gone, the boy’s new extended family includes many players providing fun activities, financial support, and lots of love.
(WATCH the inspiring video below from MSNBC)
National Football League players are rallying around a ten year-old boy whose mother, in desperation, drove him and his siblings into the river. Now that his family is gone, the boy’s new extended family includes many players providing fun activities, financial support, and lots of love.
(WATCH the inspiring video below from MSNBC)
For the first time, patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer have two new treatment options that prolong survival, according to new research presented at a cancer conference in Chicago on Sunday.
One drug specifically targets a mutated gene that tells a cancer cell to grow, the other boosts a patient’s immune system in the fight against the disease. Both drugs cause tumors to shrink and prolong survival for patients with melanoma that has spread to other parts of the body.
A 13-year-old boy invented a doorbell that fools burglars into believing somebody is home even when the house is empty.
The Smart Bell, designed by Laurence Rook, dials the homeowner’s mobile phone when pressed, allowing them to talk to whoever is outside their front door.
The doorbell can also be used to help delivery workers to complete their deliveries.
A University of Brighton student has developed a safety device that projects a bright green laser image of a bike onto the road ahead – alerting motorists to their presence.
Emily Brooke’s invention – BLAZE – uses a small, battery-powered device attached to the handlebars to project the image, which is visible even in daylight hours.
As China’s Li Na tossed the ball while serving at match point in the French Open final, a cry from a fan in the stands pierced the silence at Court Philippe Chatrier.
Distracted, Li stopped and let the ball drop. The words of support were in Mandarin: “Jia you!” — which loosely translates to “Let’s go!” After so many years of “Come on” and “Allez” and “Vamos,” there’s a new language on the tennis landscape.
Li became the first Chinese player, man or woman, to win a Grand Slam singles title.
A boy of nine has become the youngest trained pilot to fly solo in a hot-air balloon.
The New Mexico boy floated for 29 minutes, landing perfectly after two years of training. “Showing maturity well beyond his years,” news reports say, his parents, both licensed pilots, prepared him for the trip.
(WATCH the video below or read the story at Telegraph)
Both daughters are alive today because the parents had faith that a new baby would turn out to be an unlikely organ match and able to donate bone marrow to her older sister, saving her from leukemia.
(WATCH the video and interview from MSNBC)
A group of more than 200 Japanese seniors are volunteering to clean up the mess left in the Fukushima nuclear power station.
All over the age of 60, and many retired engineers, they are taking responsibility for the nuclear power plants which their generation erected.
They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.
Destruction of the world’s rain forests has declined by 25 percent in the three most important regions — the Amazon, the Congo and the Borneo Mekong — during the last decade, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
A school’s “mileage club” started in 2009 with the idea of handing out charms as an incentive for kids to run during recess has surprised everyone.
Officials at Orchard Grove Elementary in Frederick, Maryland report that as kids ran, fitness scores rocketed and disciplinary problems dwindled.
A buff Army sergeant has been honored by cops in Florida for foiling a bank robbery while on vacation with his family.
Sgt. Eddie Peoples, 34, was at a Bank of America before a fishing trip with his two sons when a gunman walked in and demanded cash from the tellers.
The decorated Iraq vet played it cool until the thug pointed the gun at his son.
The news that the NHS is piloting an eight-week course in gardening and vegetable growing to help combat depression is very welcome.
The process of growing some of your own food can have a restorative effect on mental health. Being part of the natural world, sowing, watering, weeding, pruning, harvesting and eating the plants helps to re-establish one’s individual connection with our planet, its seasons and rhythms.
There is, too, enough light exercise to boost endorphin levels.
Rais Bhuiyan, shot in the face by Mark Stroman in a shooting rampage motivated by the 9/11 attacks, is now leading the effort to prevent his attacker from being executed next month in Texas. He cites his Muslim faith as a key reason for his campaign for a commutation of Storman’s death sentence.
Bhuiyan began collecting signatures late last year on a petition asking the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute Stroman’s death penalty sentence to life in prison without parole through his website, World without Hate.
Aelita Andre is a Russian abstract painter who has already been compared to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollack — and she is just four years old.
Her parents both paint as a hobby and from the start gave her all the canvas and tubes she needed to express to her heart’s content. Anyone who watches the little girl paint can tell she loves to fling the colors and tell her own stories.
The surrealist painter had her first show when she was one year old and has another show in New York on June 4.
WATCH the video below and read more about her at the website: www.aelitaandreart.com.
