# Inspiring

Growth After Disaster: Going Beyond Resilience

It seems whenever we turn on the TV these days we witness disastrous scenes of flooding, fires, and typhoons forcing people from their homes and leaving businesses devastated. Yet, studying the trauma left in the wake of these disasters has provided researchers a way to discover how positive responses can also bloom in the aftermath of trauma.

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Roadless Vermonters Turn Woodland Path into Pedestrian Lifeline

After flooding ripped apart roads near Killington, Vermont, townspeople and school children have marshaled their resources, taking a quiet half-mile trail over a mountain and in two weeks' time turning it into the I-95 of wooded paths.

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New App "LocalHero" Gives Opportunities to Help Friends With Specific Needs

A new iPhone app launched this week, called LocalHero, lets friends help each other by identifying the people in a person's social network who are nearby and have the right skills or interests to assist with any task or need.

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Hurricane Irene: How People Are Helping, and How You Can too

While everyone watches Hurricane Irene's next move along the eastern seaboard, hundreds of people from around the US are helping organize relief efforts. The help is arriving not only from geographically diverse regions, but also from diverse religious communities, as a Muslim relief agency stands ready to deploy in the emergency response.

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Men's Morning Patrols Aimed at Giving Kids 'Safe Passage' to School

A simple plan is making sure that D.C. children who live in the troubled communities east of the Anacostia River see welcoming black male faces on their way to school in the mornings. Four times a week, at the crack of dawn, he and a small group of men walk the streets greeting students in a process they call "Safe Passage".

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Young Wrangler Charges Grizzly to Save Boy

A young woman on a big horse guiding a group of clients on a ride through Glacier National Park likely saved a boy's life while proving that skill, quick-thinking and guts sometimes are the best weapons against a head-on charging bear.

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30 Gifts for 30 Strangers: A Thank You to Australia

Lucas Jatoba was a Brazilian searching for a way to celebrate his 30th birthday. Since moving to Australia he has fallen in love with the people. So he decided to give 30 present to 30 strangers in Sydney and his friends made a video.

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Meet the 22 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners for 2011, From Science to Music

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Tuesday named 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011 who will each receive one half million dollars in no-strings-attached support for their creative endeavors. Among the 'Geniuses' chosen were an architect, a sports medicine researcher, a cellist, a developmental biologist, a radio producer, a neurologist, a conservator, a poet, a technologist, and a public historian.