They are miserable-looking creatures. Featherless, off-balance, skittish to the point of terror. Also, incredibly lucky. These are "rescue" chickens, formerly caged as egg producers in an industrial hatchery somewhere in southern Ontario. The chickens are being used as therapy animals to treat a small group of troubled children living in a nearby group home. Shepherd […]
Can we get more people to throw their trash in the bin by making it fun? Can fun encourage more people to sort recyclables? Will more people exercise if it's fun... Volkswagen says yes, through a set of experiments in a new project called The Fun Theory.
In every town, big and small, there are people feeling turmoil and fear. Maybe they lost a job, a home, or a loved one. Maybe they struggle with disease or economical hardship. In every case, hope is needed. In every case, hope can be shared with a very simple action. We hope this homemade sign […]
A Corvette parade longer than 10 miles snaked down the Atlantic City Expressway each car filled with Christmas toys their drivers were bringing to the Marine Corps' Toys For Tots campaign.
A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.
People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor.
There are reportedly thousands of abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of a Communist dictator's paranoia. Now graduate students have developed a plan called Concrete Mushrooms that would ‘invert the meaning' of these structures by turning them into an economic asset -- a network of habitable eco-hostels, cafés, gift shops and more.
A Wisconsin "empty bowls" event featured local pottery artists and bowls fashioned by area schools as a fundraiser for the local food pantry. Hundreds of Wausau residents chose their favorites from among rows of clay bowls donated. Some of the best chefs in town ladled soups into the new bowls for a fee of just […]
Inspired by the massive outpouring of volunteers helping out in the days and months after the World Trade Center tragedy, Congress and the President have officially declared September 11 a National Day of Service and Remembrance. Through the website 911DayOfService.org, hundreds of thousands of people — nonprofits, citizens, employers and faith-based groups — have already […]
Hawking a monthly newspaper written by Nashville's homeless and formerly homeless may seem to offer an unlikely path to stability, but for Jerry Andreasen, and his wife, Karren, both 65, selling copies of The Contributor at $1 a copy has helped them move from a tent by the river to renting a $100-a-week room in a North Nashville house. A carpenter and handyman, Jerry Andreasen had lost everything after he had a heart attack.
Here is a featured slideshow of lovely and famous plus-sized models. One has written a book about her love/hate and finally triumphant relationship with the fashion industry -- real encouragement for real women.
A 60-year-old woman can see again after a tooth was implanted into her eye in a historic Miami surgery. The months-long procedure had never been performed in the United States before, CNN reported yesterday, but was successful in reversing her vision loss from Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
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