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Businesses Set Ethical and Quality Standards

Today, Harvard University is among more than 30 business schools offering courses on social responsibility.* This is illustrative of many positive trends in business,...

Poor Kids Can Figure Out Computers on Their Own

Children in Remote Villages in India Teaching Themselves to use Computers Instinctively – with No Help from Adults An IT engineer in India was gazing...
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American College Students Choosing to Teach Inner City Kids

Grad Students Teach America What Gen X is All About In the spring of 2005, 12 percent of graduating seniors at Yale signed up to...

Water for Life

He remembers how the people reacted when he came to drill a well for them. “People just mobbed me and cried.” Willis Miller believes in...

Humanitarian Video Game Surprise Hit with One Million Players

Humanitarian Video Game Surprise Hit with One Million Players Launched by the United Nations last summer, the first video game designed to teach children about...

Preemies Succeed Despite Challenges

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed extremely low birth-weight infants attained similar levels of education, employment and independence as...
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Why Good News? Counting the Benefits

Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...

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Staying Healthy (Naturally) is Smart Science

Thousands of Americans wrote to a small, but forward-thinking company to say 'thanks’ for inventing an arthritis treatment that works often when nothing else...
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Beating the Odds: A Tale Of A Single Parent

What do you do when the odds are against you? When statistics predict failure in spite of your best intentions, how do you react?...
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Diet Linked to Hyper Kids

A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...
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First International Positive Psychology Summit: Psychologists Herald ways to Live Happily Ever After

A group of upstart scientists, scholars and researchers in the field of psychology have decided that it is more important to focus on what...
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Persistence Pays for PhD Student Once Labeled Retarded

Dave Dawson's future looked bleak in 1974. Based on tests, his ninth-grade teachers labeled him mentally retarded. “My vocational expectation was to be a...
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Maximum-Security Prisoners Knit for Needy Children

In New York's maximum-security prison in Auburn, inmates from the prison chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America spent their free time making Christmas gifts...

Forgiving the Unforgivable

Why would Peter and Linda Biehl, a wealthy, conservative Newport Beach couple, leave their privileged community for South Africa to work arm in arm...
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Scout’s Volunteer Garden Yields Harvest of Compassion, and Sharing for Food Banks

Marshall Levit of Houston, Texas, was 14 years old and seeking an Eagle Scout project. He looked at the large parcel of land next...

Thousands Raised for Cancer Research by 8 Year-Old Girl Honoring Dad

Why did Georgetown University rename its cancer research lab in honor a donation of just $5,000? Because the money was raised by a nine...
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CARE Comes to Rescue: Builds Tremor-Proof Homes in India

CARE and The Federation of India’s Chambers of Commerce have joined forces on one of the biggest rehabilitation projects since a devastating earthquake ripped...

All is in Divine Order

Eloise Vincent founded SOFTLY International-- Securing Our Future Today Loving Youth -- to supply medical care, clothing and beds to families living in extreme...