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Child Mortality Falls to Record Low Worldwide
Thanks mainly to campaigns to combat measles and malaria and promote breast-feeding, child deaths worldwide have reached a record low, falling below 10 million...
A Dollar a Day Transforms Teen Pen Pals in U.S. and Brazil
Imagine the thrill. You're an American teen, planting your toes into the sands of Brazil for the first time. Imagine total immersion into a...
Girls’ Team Returns from Africa with Opened Eyes
Traveling abroad for a teen, especially to Africa, can "jump-start a lifetime of social and moral awareness." For a D.C. girls' soccer team, a...
Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches
A landmark ruling has given e-mail the same constitutional protections as phone calls. The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly...
Bald Eagle Soars Off Endangered List: 11,000 Pairs From Only 417
In one of the world's greatest conservation success stories, bald eagle populations have climbed from a dismal count of just 417 nesting pairs in...
Philly Cops Honored for Compassion and Fairness
"Philadelphia Police Chief of Staff Kimberly Byrd has won the coveted George Fencl Award - named for the exemplary head of Civil Affairs during...
Smokies To Rid Areas Of Nonnative Plants
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park received special funding this year to remove nonnative plants from 11 wetlands, a Knoxville newspaper reported. If left...
The Martin Luther King of Football Dies (Tribute)
Eddie Robinson, the legendary football coach of Grambling State University for 56 years, has passed on but is being hailed as one of the...
McDonald’s Forced Out for Lack of Business in Healthy Town
While Britain may be often maligned for its cuisine, or lack thereof, we portly Americans could learn a lesson from the good folks in...
Free Endangered Wildlife Ringtones
Ring in the new year on your cell phone with the exotic calls of the Blue-throated Macaw, Beluga Whale, Boreal Owl, the Yosemite Toad,...
G is for Gay Marriage
EDITOR'S BLOG — As the editor, I need to decide what meets our standards of good news. I was stymied this week when reading about...
Halloween Candy Safe, After All
It is time we de-bunked the myth that trick-or-treat candy is in need of an x-ray before our children are allowed to dig in....
China, India Once Food Aid Recipients, Now Food Donors
In the same year it stopped receiving global food aid, China emerged as the world's third largest food donor. According to a report by...
Five Former Soviet Republics Swear Off Nuclear Weapons
Last week, five former Soviet republics committed themselves to never acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, or testing nuclear weapons by signing a treaty to create a...
The Top Ten Green Buildings for 2006
This summer, the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design...
A Bright Spot in Today’s Middle East
For years, while working, I have watched world crises come and go. CNN changed the way war was viewed. As their satellites delivered...
Mel Gibson Donates $1M for Mexico Disaster Recovery
Originally published April 11 by Rotary International News
While scouting locations for his film Apocalypto, Mel Gibson came upon a near apocalyptic situation in southern...
3.8 million Acres of California Ocean Floor Protected
The Nature Conservancy announced this week the purchase of six trawling permits and four trawling vessels from commercial fishermen in Morro Bay as part...
HERO Youth Ambassadors to Serve African Orphans, Schools Hit by AIDS
The HERO campaign is enhancing the lives of children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Today it launched...
Holland Cruise Ship Rescues Migrants
The United Nations is praising the rescue of 22 migrants, including at least one asylum seeker, whose vessel had sunk in the Aegean Sea,...