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Public Choosees 5 Non-profits for $100,000 Grant From Tom’s of Maine
For the first time in its 40 year history of charitable giving, Tom's of Maine, the natural toothpaste company, opened up its funding process...
Thousands of UCLA Students Fan Out Across City for Day of Service (w/ Video)
An army of 5,000 college freshman dressed in blue tee shirts boarded 100 buses on their first day at UCLA, fanning out across...
Texas Urban Schools Win $1 Million Education Prize for Third Year
The Aldine Independent School District outside Houston has won the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education, the largest education award in the country, and...
Food Banks Get Help From Prison Inmates
As food bank shelves quickly empty during the recession and more people need help to feed their families, prisons are providing a partial...
Ex-Fighters Build New Businesses Under UN Reintegration
From raising chickens and growing tomatoes to washing cars and renting out party equipment, combatants emerging from the civil war in the Ivory Coast...
Hero Brothers Pulled Boy, 4, Out of Burning SUV
Firefighting brothers John and Joel Rechlitz arrived on the scene within minutes of the accident which flipped the SUV on its side. A group...
Sears Tower Goes Green with $350 Million Renovation
Plans announced Wednesday unveiled a new green renovation plan for the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, The Sears Tower. The project will result...
Love Has Returned to the City: Iranian Heart Swells Before Friday Election
Enjoying the blessing of living close to a public garden and highway in Tehran where the young generation intentionally produces traffic to react to...
Business Booming at Pay-What-You-Want Cafe (Video)
As restaurants compete for customers in the economy of a big city, the SAME cafe in Denver has doubled its business since the...
Indulge in Gourmet and Help Feed a Child, Charity says
Dining at top-notch restaurants just got more meaningful with a charity drive that hopes to turn gourmet meals across Asia into food for...
Obama Unveils ‘Historic’ Car Efficiency Standards
President Obama yesterday announced what amounts to a historic shift in climate change policy, a new rule that strengthens fuel economy and greenhouse gas...
Polio Patient Lived Amazing Life Inside an Iron Lung
Polio paralyzed Martha Mason from the neck down in 1948, and she spent the rest of her days inside an iron lung, an...
Teachers of the Year Honored at the White House
President Obama last week honored a retired New York police captain, special education teacher Anthony Mullen, as the nation's top teacher. ...
Data Center Heats Nearby Homes
Can a data center heat your home or office? It can in London, where excess heat from servers at the new Telehouse West...
10 Ways to Beat the Blues?
Blame a long winter, blame media fixations with bad news, blame the credit crunch and the thought of looming global depression - Britons...
Jasmine the Greyhound, ‘Mother Theresa’ of Dogs
In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. It had been locked in the shed...
French Physicist Wins $1.4M Templeton Prize for Spiritual Implications of Quantum Mechanics
French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d'Espagnat has won the Templeton Prize for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain 'the...
Big Vatican Christmas Tree to Be Recycled Into Toys for Needy
All the wood from a 120-year-old tree -- the largest Christmas tree ever placed in St Peter's Square in Rome -- will be recycled...
Starbucks Backs Young Social Entrepreneurs With Thousands in Grants
25 young people from 17 countries will receive between $5,000 and $15,000 to enhance their work as social entrepreneurs, awarded through a 2008 competition...
With Bees Dying by the Billions, Teens Protect Pollinators
Millions of Monarchs will begin arriving in Mexico this week in an annual migration that includes thousands traveling through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and some...