After his ninth heart surgery, 70-year-old Andy Mackie's doctors had him on 15 different medicines. But the side effects made life miserable. So one day he quit taking all 15 and decided to spend his final days doing something he always wanted to do. He used the money he would have spent on the prescriptions […]
15 Years after the attack on a federal building, children are benefiting from the outpouring of donations from people who wanted to help the victims' families. More than 200 children had parents killed or disabled in the truck bombing and two-thirds have since gone on to college or other education programs, thanks to the Oklahoma City Community Foundation fund.
An A-list of athletes, politicians, celebrities and corporations have again joined together to create auction items that offer an instant dream-come-true for bidders on the annual RFK Center spring auction, in its final day today.
Masooma Habibi remembers her hands bleeding after weaving carpets with her mother in Iran when she was 5. Now she is part of a delegation of entrepreneurs chosen to take part in President Obama's Summit on Entrepreneurship starting today in Washington. She is proving that women can build businesses in traditional Muslim societies -- and succeed if they never give up.
Project Rejuvenation is designed to encourage and invigorate homeless women in L.A. by giving each participant a complete makeover and making them models in a fashion show.
A team of 20 Nepalese Sherpas is planning to clean up rubbish and bring the bodies of dead climbers down from the top of Mount Everest -- the first clean up of its kind at such an altitude.
Army medic John Stone was enjoying a Yankee game when a woman began to choke ten rows away. He took over after 4 people failed to successfully clear her airway, receiving a seat upgrade from the team
Lalita Booth dropped out of school and turned to drugs after being abused as a teenager, but turned her life around after enrolling in a community college, and then becoming an honors student at a four-year university. Now, she's in the process of earning a Master's degree in business and public policy from Harvard University.
A Detroit-area man lost 365 pounds in the last three and a half years, thanks to a yoga class and its meditative messages. Weighing 540 pounds in 2006, Larry Sherman said the Yoga Shelter helped him to see that the heart of the problem was in his head.
Milwaukee urban farmer Will Allen, who envisions a five-story farm in the middle of a city is a world hero, according to Time magazine's Most Influential People," which honors ideas, innovations and actions that are "shaping our world.
President Obama named ten charities this week that will share the $1.4 million award that comes with his 2009 Nobel peace prize.
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