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Polio Vaccines in Somalia

The World Health Organization has launched a five-day polio immunization campaign in Somalia to vaccinate nearly one and a half million children under...

Clicks Against Breast Cancer, and Hunger, and Deforestation, and…

My friend Katharine sent me a message that the Breast Cancer Site was having trouble getting enough people to click on their site for...
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Punks Against Suicide

A score of punk rock and hardcore bands are touring the country to raise awareness and much-needed cash for the teen suicide hotline, 1-800-Suicide...
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Court Rejects Easing Pollution Controls

A federal appeals court rejects Bush Administration efforts to weaken Clean Air emission rules on aging coal-fired power plants. The vote was unanimous that...

Fat Man Walking: Losing Pounds and Gaining Peace

Steve Vaught is an unlikely celebrity: "...A morbidly obese man who has captured the heart of America by walking alone across the country on a...

20 Muslim Inventions that Shaped Our World

1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World is an exhibition which began a tour of the UK this week at the Science...
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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,...

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...

Saving The Earth With Help From Above

The European Space Agency (ESA) agreed to launch a copy of its lost Cryosat Satellite to definitively measure the effect of climate change on...

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,...

The Mission of Good News Network

What we offer A Daily Dose of News to Enthuse — The Good News Network® is a clearinghouse for the gathering and dissemination of positive...
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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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Comeback News: Seals, Humpbacks, and Urchins Increasing

Steller sea lions in Alaska are making a comeback. An aerial survey of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands spotted more than 19,000...
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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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Record Numbers of Steelhead Trout Running in Columbia River

After decades of decline in salmon and steelhead runs, this year the largest steelhead run in the history of dam counts is crossing Bonneville...
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Healing on Her Mind; Surviving a Brain Tumor

As Cheryl Clark began a weekend horseback ride one sunny October afternoon in 1997, a time bomb went off. A violent seizure threw the...
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Woman Donates Part of her Liver to a Child She Didn’t Even Know

While the season of giving flourished in department stores, the true meaning of the word was demonstrated in a hospital in North Carolina. A...
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Oyster Tide is Turning

In a rare show of consensus, scientists, fishermen, environmentalists and area residents are joining together to restore the Chesapeake Bay's historic shellfish bars, or...
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Puerto Rican Parrot Population Expands by 25%

For the first time in history, ten captive-bred endangered Puerto Rican parrots were released yesterday to join the last 40 parrots existing in the...