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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

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Bridge Collapse Hero is Offered Free Tuition

One of the heroes of the Minnesota bridge collapse has been offered a substantial reward -- full tuition at a technical college, which he had been attending but had to leave because of the cost.

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Neighbors Unite Around 'Loner' Among Them

When a loner injured his knee at age 84 and landed in a nursing home, he hated it. He might have died angry -- except for the extraordinary efforts of 4 neighbors and a priest who sprung him.

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Maine Letter Carrier Named 'Hero of the Year' for Rescuing Elderly Apartment Fire Victim

A Maine letter carrier who pulled an elderly woman in flames from her burning apartment building along his postal route, then alerted other residents to flee, was named this week as National Hero of the Year by the 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers.