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Miracle Baseball League Helps Disabled Kids Play the Game They Love

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Thirteen-year-old Justin Clemens loves baseball. Though born premature and covered with bruises after complications at birth, he’s more mature than most boys his age, has a great sense of humor and an outgoing personality.

Cerebral palsy may limit Justin’s use of his left arm and both legs, but he plays his favorite sport on the Montgomery Miracle League. With help from parents and coaches he swings at pitches and scoots to first base with his walker. “When he’s going for home, he feels like a million bucks“…

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Girl, 2, Comes to the Rescue after Mother Passes Out

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“A two-year-old girl saved her mother after she collapsed by telling the emergency operator their name and address and tending to the woman as they waited for an ambulance. The girl’s mother managed to dial 999 before drifting in and out of consciousness. She heard her daughter calmly telling the operator her mother’s name and address.” (Guardian)

Deaths from Severe Heart Attacks Cut in Half

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Heart disease rates have been falling for several decades since we’ve learned how to live healthier, but now death rates for those who’ve entered hospitals after severe heart attacks have nearly halved in the last six years, a study shows. "The international team, which studied 44,372 patients in 14 countries, found that death rates fell from 8.4% to 4.5% between 1999 and 2006, mostly thanks to treatments like angioplasty to unblock arteries and anti-clotting drugs." (BBC)

Pope Issues new Green Message for World’s Catholics

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"The Vatican last week added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God’s will, and that the one billion-strong Catholic church must become far greener. Meanwhile  US church leaders lobby Bush on global warming." (Guardian)

UPDATED: American Idol Charity Donations Top $70 Million

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The American Idol charity telethon called “Idol Gives Back” netted more than $60 million for impoverished children in Africa and America — as well as for Boys and Girls Clubs that keep kids safe and out of trouble after school. Five million dollars was pledged by Fox parent company, NewsCorp, $100,000 was donated by one of the co-stars of the night, Ellen DeGeneres, and 70,000 people joined One.org to help eradicate poverty after a plea on the show from U2’s Bono. – AP

UPDATE: The fund topped $70 million, says Ryan Seacrest on the Ellen show today.

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Ex-Foes Patrol Together as Peace Advances in Ivory Coast

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"Once sworn foes, government and rebel soldiers in Ivory Coast on Monday began their first joint patrols in a "battle for peace" aimed at reuniting the West Africa state split by a 2002/2003 civil war." (Reuters)

75-Year-Old Man Plans to Walk 720 Miles to Fight Breast Cancer

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"Moved into action by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, George Nummer signed up for his first breast cancer walk at age 70. Now the ambitious 75-year-old plans to take part in all 12 Breast Cancer 3-Day walks this year, criss-crossing the nation and hoofing it across 720 miles." He will suffer some pain, he said, but it’s "nothing compared to the suffering a breast cancer survivor goes through." (Clawson, Michigan – HometownLife.com)

Legendary Custom Guitar Returned After 50 Years

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In 1952, Jimmy Luttrell, who first taught Jimi Hendrix how to play behind his back, received a double-neck guitar and mandolin from a master craftsman who wanted to reward the teenager’s talent. Last week, the handmade electric guitar and mandolin combination was returned to Luttrell after being stolen more than 50 years ago. The guitar’s journey ended in Leesburg, Va., where it was shipped to an unsuspecting eBay buyer, who gave it to Lutrell after being informed by the sheriff’s department that it was stolen. (Leesburg Times) Check out Mr. Lutrell’s Web site for old photos and stories of this “Guitar King.”

Baby Crying Behind You on a Jet? Turn a Negative into a Positive

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MD-80 cabinDavid Pollay has advice for anyone in need of rescue from a situation that is so distracting or irritating that you can’t think of anything else. Try this, and see if it works…

The plane was full. My seat was 22C. To my surprise there was no one beside me and no one behind me. I felt like I had won the lottery of seating charts. You know the feeling. You can spread out. You can recline without bothering anyone. You can even use two tray tables!

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The VA Tech Shootings and the Need for Good News

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EDITOR’S BLOG — What is one to say after the worst school shooting in history? And on the very same day, the worst bombings in Iraq to date? … I continued publishing positive news even though I felt like an imposter. Like other artists, whose creations feed the soul rather than providing benefits in outwardly practical ways, I felt an inadequacy and uselessness in the wake of the tragedy. Then I remembered the days after 9/11, when I confided to my ten-year-old boy that maybe sharing the good news was pointless in these horrific times. He countered, "Good news is more important than EVER!"

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Shooting Victim Tells How to Stop the Violence (Video)

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“Before Virginia Tech, before Columbine, there was Paducah, Kentucky. A 1997 school shooting there left Missy Jenkins Smith paralyzed, but not without hope.” … She talks from her wheelchair about how we’ve already got a powerful solution to the violence in the way that we treat people. She carries absolutely no malice for the boy who open fired on her and her friends and is a tremendous spokesperson. She’s got a happy life, born anew with purpose, a new husband, and a baby on the way… Read the full story, produced by Kevin Sites, in the Hot Zone.

U.S. Mining Company Agrees to ‘Green’ Review After Shareholder Pressure

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"For the first time, an American mining firm has supported a "social responsibility" resolution put forward by shareholder activists. The move shows the power shareholders hold in getting corporations to address social and environmental concerns." (CS Monitor) Thanks to SG!

A Guardian of Earth’s Treasure Trove of Trees

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“For 50 years, Britain’s Peter Ashton has been studying — and trying to preserve — a wealth of diversity in Asia’s tropical forests.” (CS Monitor) Thanks to SG for the link!

Housing Offered by Colleges to Single Moms

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"To live independently, single mothers need an education. But to get one, they also need a place to live and child care — needs that colleges are waking up to." (CS Monitor) Thanks SG!

Lenders Act to Limit U.S. Foreclosures

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"Major lenders embark on a rescue mission to halt the wave of foreclosures sweeping the nation and delaying a housing market recovery." (CS Montor) Thanks to SG for the link!

Oregon Governor Lives On Food Stamps

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The governor of Oregon challenged himself to live on food stamps for one week, which didn’t leave enough for his morning coffee. Twenty-one dollars is what the average state resident is allowed for groceries, so he shopped for "mac and cheese" while the media tagged along. (AP)

Rap Music Guru Russell Simmons Wants Bad Language Cleaned Up

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Russell SimmonsAl Sharpton and other black activists are angry at hip-hop superstar entrepreneur Russell Simmons for stepping forward to initiate a new dialogue around offensive language in rap and hip-hop lyrics.

In short, Simmons says three words should never be played in songs over the airwaves. “If you want those words go buy them.” There can be “clean versions” that are for sale, which also have the words removed.

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Five Tons of Food from Grand Prix Goes To Charity

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Indy Formula one carsA Grand Prix event in St. Petersburg, Florida, donated their leftovers — 5 tons of steak, lobster, shrimp and sandwich trays — to a St. Vincent de Paul charity. “We’ve been unloading for three days,” said Sophie Sampson, the executive director there. “The Indy Racing League Ministry, an organization serving the Grand Prix’s sanctioning body, has been donating unused food to rescue missions for years, and in 2006 gave away about 100,000 pounds in communities where races take place, according to its Web site.” (– St. Petersburg Times)

CO2 in the Air? Why Not Suck it Out? A New Machine Does Just That

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carbon capture devicesJust before his death in 2006, Gary Comer, founder of Lands’ End, funded a start-up company to develop ways to pull CO2 out of the air. Last week, Comer’s Global Research Technologies officially introduced its unique CO2 vacuum cleaner in conjunction with Earth Day, placing the Arizona company in a good position to win a $25 million prize offered in February to anyone who could invent such a thing. (The hefty prize was the creation of Sir Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, as a motivation for inventors to devise ways of cleaning the air of existing global warming gases.)

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What You Think About, You Bring About: the Law of Attraction (Video)

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“Your perception determines your experience,” says Rev. Michael Beckwith, one of the teachers writing in the hit book, The Secret. Take responsibility for your life by choosing what you focus on. CBS’s Bill Whitaker questions the truths behind “The Secret” on this video, which was posted on YouTube by CBS — with an option to share. Gaiam.com, Inc

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