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Vacuum Cleaner Salesman Donates Kidney to Would-Be Customer

A traveling salesman who tried to sell a Kirby vacuum to a family in Twin Falls, Idaho, ended up, instead, donating his kidney. He calls it "a miracle" that he feels so good.

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10,000 Men For a Safer Philadelphia

Thousands of African-American men are heeding the call, signing up to patrol the streets of crime-infested southwest Philadelphia and serve as mentors. "We need love back in this community."

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NY Subway Heroes Disappear After Saving Woman

A woman collapsed on a subway platform and fell onto the tracks. Two men pulled her to safety, but disappeared once she was ok.

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Ex-Child Soldier Finds Healing and Purpose in Music

"As one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, he has traveled a road of pain many people cannot imagine, survived against all odds and come back to become an artist, rapping about those experiences. Music has provided him an outlet to deal with his boyhood suffering and transform it." - cnn

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Cirque du Soleil Founder Brings Water to Poor Nations

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte unveiled Monday a new foundation that will help the world's poorest countries gain access to precious clean water, funding the program with (Canadian) $100 million.

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School Features Flat Screens in Bathrooms; Trips Overseas: Ron Clark to Make Leaders of Poor Kids

Ron Clark, a NY Times best-seller who was featured in a made-for-cable-TV movie, opened a private $3.5-million, state-of-the-art school in one of the poorest sections of Atlanta: "More than 350 students applied to the new Ron Clark Academy where flat-screen TVs are mounted in bathrooms, graffiti art fills the walls.

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Americans Remember Their Debt to French Nobleman Lafayette, 250 Years After His Birth

Across the United States, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of a French nobleman to whom they still feel indebted, centuries after he helped them win independence

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Finding Heroism in Forgiveness

Kim Crespi was honored as a Hero of Forgiveness." She has forgiven her husband for stabbing to death their 5-year-old twin daughters. She visits him in prison every week, where he's received medication for his bi-polar disorder