# Inspiring

Top 10 "Seriously Good News" From 2010

2010 was a year of disasters -- Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill and Pakistani flooding -- yet it was also a year of stunning generosity, technological prowess, and compassion. These are our top ten picks to highlight the seriously good news that deserves pondering as we move into 2011

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Six Amazing Happy Endings Thanks to Facebook (Good News Network Exclusive)

We've seen a lot of media stories featuring the wonders of Facebook. But these amazing outcomes will cheer even the surliest of social media critics. From the past year, the Good News Network chooses these six tales as the most inspiring.

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Men Escort Pedestrians Home From Subway in Wake of Robberies

After a spate of recent muggings and robberies, a group of 20 Bedford-Stuyvesant men started escorting people home as they got off the train and are walking through the neighborhood reaching out to young men. They also sponsored a neighborhood outreach walk earlier this month, stopping to talk to young men hanging out on the corners.

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Homeless Man Uses Facebook, Social Media to Advocate for Others Like Him

Eric Sheptock has 4,548 Facebook friends, 839 Twitter followers, two blogs and an e-mail account with 1,600 unread messages. What he doesn't have is a place to live, which is what gives this unemployed former crack addict who hasn't had a permanent address in 15 years his clout on the issue of homelessness.

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Neighbors Use 88,000 Christmas Lights to Feed the Hungry

Two neighboring families are using the power of a Christmas light display to feed a lot of hungry people in the San Francisco Bay Area. The inspiring project not only has the charity component, but also a forward-thinking, environmentally-sustainable foundation, with 100% solar power and LED lights to cut energy usage.

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With Every Holiday E-Card You Send, Bike Donated to Needy Kids

Schwinn is giving away free bikes to needy kids for Christmas and you can give one too! Just send a free e-card featuring the Schwinn Bell Choir playing holiday tunes, like Jingle Bells, on the bells from their bicycles. For every card send, a bike will be donated. The more you share, the more they […]

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$6,600 in Shredded Cash Restored by "Jigsaw Expert"

Taiwan's Justice Ministry offers a free forensic service for repairing damaged cash, which is lucky for Lin, the man who accidentally shredded $6,600 last month. Nicknamed the jigsaw expert a specialist took just seven days to piece together the remains of 200 $1,000 Thai bills that were mistakenly dropped into a shredding machine.

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Mom Returns to Mumbai 2 Years After Attacks to Forgive the Unforgiveable

An online video series begins today telling the story of Kia Scherr, a wife and mother, who has forgiven the unforgiveable. Her husband and 13-year-old daughter were murdered two years ago in the Mubai terrorist attacks, while they huddled together under a table in the Oberoi Hotel restaurant.