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Senior Collects Cans for 30 Years to Build Community Pool

An 83-year-old Kansas woman spent 30 years driving open roads, picking up aluminum cans, in a single-handed effort to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool for the children in her home town of Eskridge.

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Airline Attendants Use Overseas Flights to Aid Half Million Orphans

Airline Ambassadors International has bettered the lives of more than a half million children around the globe thanks to 590 flight attendants...

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Poland Honors Woman who Saved 2,500 Jewish Children from Holocaust

A woman is honored in Poland for her part in a secret organization that rescued thousands of Jews from certain death by smuggling them out of the country in baskets and ambulances. Though tortured, the Catholic lady wouldn't talk to her captors.

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Millionaire Gives Mansions to Homeless

Japanese billionaire, Genshiro Kawamoto, cried as he presented the keys to a multimillion-dollar home to a low-income single mom with 5 kids. "Her family will live there rent-free, but must pay utility bills. He plans to open eight of his 22 Hawaiian homes to poor families for ten years." (By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press – […]

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NYC Cabbie Returns Bag of Diamond Rings

A New York City cab driver from Bangladesh spent hours laboring to track down a rider so he could return a bag of diamond rings that she'd left in his trunk.

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The True Angel of Africa

Sonia Waters has raised funds from family and friends to provide a village in Malawi with a primary school (equipped with books, pencils, and a daily meal for all pupils); a new kindergarten and playground; a village vegetable garden, a goat-keeping enterprise and a women's co-operative.

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TV Helicopter Pilot Saves Stranded Deer Blowing it off Ice

A deer was trapped on an icy pond and couldn't get its footing. Then, a chopper pilot had the bright idea of using the blades of his helicopter blow the deer to the shore. Sure enough, it worked!

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Nigeria's Thriving 'Lady Mechanics' Once Disadvantaged

Sandra Aguebor, an activist known to Nigerians as the Lady Mechanic, is a mother of two who rose from humble beginnings to national prominence creating a thriving enterprise that trains disadvantaged women in Nigeria to learn a promising trade