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More Girls Educated in Niger, Thanks to IKEA Toy Drive for UNICEF (Video)
UNICEF is helping to build child-friendly schools in Niger, where school attendance rates are among the lowest in the world and just 31% of...
Artist’s Fake Freeway Sign Becomes Official Public Service
Artist Richard Ankrom took it upon himself in 2001 to install a new highway number on a Los Angeles freeway sign to help ease...
Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic Books Online
Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part...
The Ultimate Holiday Gift; Choosing How You Feel
I grew up hearing that moods were a “gift” that you needed to go through in order to become a better person. I’m not...
Gift of Glamour Goes to Those who Need it
Carey Carter and Mitchell Barnes, owners of the posh Carter Barnes salon in Atlanta, Georgia, found an amazing, unconventional way to bring Christmas joy...
Would-be Robber Pays Back Store Owner Who Showed Kindness
A would-be robber in Long Island has paid a store owner back.
In June, a robber tried to steal money from a deli, but the...
Innovative IPO Raises Million for Homeless
A new homeless shelter in San Francisco is using an innovative IPO program to raise money. Homeward Bound of Marin raised one million dollars...
How to Stop Saying, I Can’t, and Start Saying, I Can
Do you ever wonder where it came from, this tendency to argue for your limitations? We talk ourselves out of trying something new because...
Bringing on Hope – Using a Big Sign
In every town, big and small, there are people feeling turmoil and fear. Maybe they lost a job, a home, or a loved one....
Canadians Make Breakthrough in How Cancer Spreads
In a world first, Canadian scientists have decoded all three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic breast cancer tumor and identified...
Alarmed by Tone of Public Debate, US Church Council Calls for Civility
Alarmed by the intensity of angry and sometimes violent language coming out of public meetings on healthcare and other issues, the National Council of...
UCLA Scientists Make Paralyzed Rats Walk Again After Spinal Cord Injury
UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run...
Hundreds of Thousands to Participate in National Day of Service Tomorrow
Inspired by the massive outpouring of volunteers helping out in the days and months after the World Trade Center tragedy, Congress and the President...
Clothes and Food Left in the Park for Homeless
Today we spent the morning going through our personal belongings. We were looking for items to give away, free, at a local park. Not...
100% of Onion Waste Powers Largest Factory
The largest onion processor in the nation began this week to convert 100 percent of its onion waste -- 300,000 pounds per day --...
Urban High School Achieves Rare Feat: No Dropouts
In a city where dropout rates are always among New Jersey's highest and test scores are among the lowest, one experimental school, Camden's MetEast...
Brain Scan Makes Torture Obsolete
Dr. Lawrence Farwell has invented a technology that he believes will make torture obsolete. The system, which detects recognition of information stored in a...
Those Who Aim to Please May Miss the Mark
Have you ever altered your behavior in an attempt to make someone else feel better? If you have, you may be pleased to know...
Positive Psychology, Person-Centered Therapy, and Happiness
Mental Health Minute: A New Column By Cristina Frick... This new Monday Morning weekly column will showcase recent...
Teen Fights To Find His Own Foster Family
He is an exceptional student with a near perfect SAT score, but 17-year-old Alex Chivescu needed to find a foster family who...