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City Parking Spaces Transformed into Mini-Parks

Artists, activists, and citizens will transform metered parking spaces around San Francisco into parks, playgrounds, and social "PARK(ing)spaces" on the first official Park(ing) Day.

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Bringing Back Thank-You With $20,000 Kindness Prize

The first annual National Thank You Day launches this month with a contest to search for one small deed that deserves one big thank you with a prize of $20,000 from merci® European Chocolates and etiquette expert, Peggy Post.

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Boomers Answer Call to Service, in Legislatures and Classrooms

In the last four years, a growing number of baby boomers are showing up in the freshman class of state legislatures, eschewing retirement in favor of meaningful second careers.

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Historic Healing for Native Americans and Whites Near Wounded Knee

While some South Dakota whites will always be bitter about the modern Wounded Knee standoff three decades ago, a Native American national newspaper reporter says a recent benefit concert symbolized the recent healing of race relations between the Lakota people and their neighbors.

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A Dollar a Day Transforms Teen Pen Pals in U.S. and Brazil

The age old tradition of pen pals has long sparked international friendships, but now it has become an avenue for providing aid to poor families in Brazil, with the added byproduct of lasting friendships.

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Inspiration Point: Your Flaw May Be A Strength

My dad, now 90, told this story to me many times. It illustrates how our greatest challenges or problems in life can become our best opportunities for unthinkable success. What looks like an obstacle may be the natural step toward greatness.

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Success Coach Provides Inspiring Advice in Online Videos

Check out this series of videos by success coach Robin Sharma. He reminds us what it takes to win and become the successful people we were meant to be.

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"Free Hugs" Campaign Aims to Inspire Reserved Japanese

A group of university students are on a mission to change Japan -- and make hugging more acceptable, inspired by the original Free Hugs campaign in Sydney that rallied strangers together.