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Schools Recycle More Than 48,000 Pounds of Beverage Cans to Win Awards

School kids demonstrated a "can-do" attitude in this season's Aluminum Can Recycling National School Challenge. 133 schools, representing more than 70,000 students, joined with aluminum suppliers and beverage can manufacturers in the competition. Collectively, over the 12-week period they raised over $53,000 and recycled more than 48,094 pounds of used aluminum beverage cans.

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Youth Saves Hundreds of Chilean Islanders After Sounding Alarm

A 12 year-old girl saved the lives of scores of inhabitants of Juan Fernandez archipelago, 373 miles from the Chilean coastline, when she sounded the alert following an earthquake.

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Twins Accepted Into 56 Colleges With $1.6M in Scholarship Money-Just for Mom

These siblings went to extreme lengths to make sure their mother would never have to sacrifice for their education ever again.

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Good Deeds Earn Good Grades at L.A. High School

For years, a high school in downtown Los Angeles has made doing good deeds a part of the school's curriculum. Now social services agencies are counting on the students' help.

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Every Senior at All-Black Urban Acadamy in Chicago is College Bound

Englewood's Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in Chicago has fulfilled its lofty mission within four years: 100 percent of its first senior class has been accepted to four-year colleges.

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Elementary Kids Raise Thousands for Wheelchairs, Instead of Selves

From doing extra chores to collecting from the Tooth Fairy, Top of the World Elementary students spent the last month getting creative about fundraising. The $4,520 collected isn't going to a school program, though. Teachers asked students to look beyond their needs and support the Free Wheelchair Mission, an Irvine-based nonprofit organization that sends specialized wheelchairs to countries around the world.

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Survey Shows 3 Out of 4 Girls Happy With Their Bodies

According to a national survey released by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City's legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic.

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3 Year-old Gives Prosthetic Leg to Haiti

A 3 year-old girl was watching the news on TV in New Mexico when she heard there were children who lost their limbs. She ran to her bedroom closet to fetch her own prosthetic limb -- one that she had outgrown -- and told her mom she wanted to give it to a child in Haiti.