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Bloggers Create Fundraising Tool For Runners to Help Rebuild School In Darfur

Bloggers are combining physical fitness with the desire to help others in a new internet tool called Train for Humanity. Their initial pilot project focuses on raising $50,000 to help rebuild a school in Darfur.

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Signs That, Amid Tough Times, Americans Will Keep Giving

Even while Americans are reeling from bad economic news, most donors plan to give to charity, with 51 percent planning to donate via the Internet during November or December, according to a new survey.

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Giant Buddha Statue Unearthed in Afghanistan

Archaeologists in Afghanistan said they discovered a giant Buddha statue measuring 62 feet tall and features the Buddha in a sleeping position.

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This Sunday Join a Worldwide Intention Experiment for Peace

Join possibly the largest experiment ever designed to test the power of group intention to lower violence and bring peace in conflict areas around the world. This Sunday, September 14, you can participate with hundreds of thousands of people for ten minutes sending an intention for peace under highly controlled scientific conditions.

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Jumper With Chute Problem Survives Mile-High Mountain Fall (UPDATED)

A Norwegian jumper survived a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain. Video captured by a camera attached to Hans Lange's specially designed jump suit showed him struggling to straighten out his parachute before slamming into a rock wall and crashing into a tree top

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Farm Aid to Help Farmers Hurt by Ike, Gustav

Farm Aid today announced that initial grants would be made to southern farm and faith-based organizations to support family farmers hardest hit by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav.

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Put the Doom Merchants on Notice: There is Good News!

For the past seven days, there has been no getting away from the incessant drum beat of bad news... "Everything is collapsing around our ears," so says the television reporter. But the journalists' world is not the only world. There are also rescues, innovations, breakthroughs and happy endings.

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The Lion Who Thought He was People

Christian the lion was bought as a cub in London and raised by two young men who gave him up when he outgrew the city. They released him in Africa to be raised in the wild and the video of their joyful reunion a year later has become a YouTube sensation.