A towing company near Winston-Salem, North Carolina is servicing a lot of people now that the cold weather is stranding motorists whose car batteries have died. But one of their employees at All Over Towing, Daniel Sadler, started thinking about people who had no homes or vehicles and who would be outdoors in the freezing temperatures.
A man dressed as comic hero Spider-Man has begun walking the streets of Birmingham, England handing out sandwiches to the homeless.
A homeless man in State College, Pennsylvania returned a wallet with $350 cash to a woman who is a single mother battling brain cancer.
Buffalo, New York is becoming a national model, having reduced its chronically homeless population by 90 percent. Now the police are stepping in to help.
Volunteers in Honolulu are turning retired city buses into homeless shelters.
When this 5-year-old saw a homeless man outside an Alabama restaurant he implored his mom to buy him a meal–then brought everyone to tears by singing grace.
A 40-year-old fashion industry worker in NYC, personally hand delivers thousands of new sneakers to homeless people.
It all started with one good deed that led to an even bigger one, which resulted in a life-changing one, all in the name of helping homeless people with pets, who aren't allowed in shelters because of their animal companions. Break.com, an online site that showcases funny videos, planned to surprise the Louisville pet hero […]
A video uploaded to Facebook of a homeless man playing a "public piano," has become quite popular--and landed him the chance to audition for a paying gig.
A formerly homeless Ten-Year-Old boy in Phoenix is using his allowance and donations to design and sew clothing for people who are still struggling.
A photographer documenting Honolulu, Hawaii's homeless was surprised to find her long-lost father among them.
He may look like a roadside panhandler, but this formerly homeless man now promotes books and uses the money to feed the homeless.
Brian Peterson was moved to make a difference by painting portraits of Santa Ana's homeless, and selling them to help pay for the person's housing.
After the earthquake tore apart the homes of thousands of Haitian families, Mission Of Hope stepped in to care for those in one town–building a model community.
What is human nature? Are we basically good, evil, or a little of both? Philosophers debated this throughout the ages, but science today delivers some definitive news. Humans are naturally altruistic. In Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a window has been opened into human behavior. Experiments involving prelinguistic and just post-linguistic childre
Motorola Inc. will release a new, bicycle-powered cellphone charger aimed at Third World residents who lack regular household power supplies.
The Justice Department’s latest annual National Crime Victimization Survey of the United States estimates that rapes and attempted rapes fell more than 80 percent from 1973 through 2004
A large scale study in Britain suggests eight-year-olds who were fed on demand as infants had higher IQs -- and did better in school -- than did children who were fed on a schedule.
Spending time with family was the top answer to what makes teens happy, according to an extensive survey on the nature of happiness among America's young people.NYT
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