A young stay-at-home mom in Maine admits that she had to think about it a for a minute when her eight-year-old discovered $4000 on the sidewalk by a Sam's Club. As for her daughter Abbie? It never crossed her mind to keep it. And her honesty paid off.
Large wooden tables and long benches are located strategically under shady trees on either side of a bubbling brook. Clusters of friends and family relax and enjoy each other's company in the natural surroundings. What sets Ein Prat – or Wadi Kelt, as it is known in Arabic – apart from other parks is that it is one of the few Israeli-run sites that Israelis and Palestinians can access equally, which has made it an oasis for peace.
In some African countries, a lack of reliable electricity is to blame for hundreds of deaths each year during childbirth. Dr. Laura Stachel witnessed this tragic truth during a trip to Nigeria five years ago and with the help of her husband, a solar energy educator, started delivering a solution: solar energy in a suitcase.
Four years ago, Janelly Martinez-Amador was confined to a bed, unable to move even an arm or lift her head. The fragile toddler had a rare disorder that left her without any bones. Now, at age 7, thanks to medical science, she is developing her own bones with the aid of an experimental drug therapy.
An infant who needed CPR every day often stopped breathing. With hopes dimming that the baby would survive, doctors tried an experimental technique never before tried on a human, they created a splint made out of biological material that effectively carved a path through Kaiba's blocked airway.
Global advertising giant JWT paired two of its clients, a Brazilian cancer center with Warner Bros., who enlisted their Justice League comic book illustrators to create superhero stories that transform chemotherapy into a "Superformula." They even made covers for intravenous bags with superhero logos.
Handing down a 5-3 decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission can challenge closed-door deals that the big pharmaceutical companies make with smaller generic rivals to keep cheaper products off the market and out of drug stores.
For Sharon Hart, the third day after her chemotherapy treatment for her leukemia is always the hardest. But this time, her 14-year-old son told her to look out the window of her Chicago hospital room. His giant message in the newly fallen snow made some of the pain go away.
A 9-year-old boy whose tiny body was ravaged by swine flu during the 2009 outbreak is recovering from a much-needed but once-impossible kidney transplant.
What if you accidentally dumped something in the trash bin that was worth $10,000? Would you swim in a pile of waste to find it? After he mistakenly tossed out his wife's engagement ring, one husband didn't think twice.
A teenager in Scotland won a whopping £53,000 on the National Lottery - all because his mum told him to tidy his room. He unearthed 12 old tickets in his drawer and was going to throw them away but at the last minute had a strange feeling that he should get them checked.
A Boston cat miraculously survived a fall from a 19th floor apartment window, walking away with only minor bruising. The feline's owner, who left the window open a crack before leaving for work, says that the white cat luckily landed on a small patch of grass and mulch.
A miracle mum saved her baby daughter from being crushed to death when she outran a 32-tonne lorry - seconds before it demolished her home. Jen Whitelam, 23, was halfway out of her front door with one-year-old Bella, when she spotted the out of control truck careering towards her.
While her husband waited for her to arrive at the hospital, Canadian mom Carolyn Murdoch was in the middle of a dramatic delivery at 4:33 a.m. Sunday in the back seat of her Honda Accord.
A 51-year-old man was cleaning out the contents of an old house that belonged to his grandfather and found a soot-covered box that had been tucked away in the attic for a hundred years. Inside he found hundreds of new baseball cards bundled with twine, including 16 mint-condition 'Ty Cobbs'. They remained untouched for a century, making them perhaps the most significant sports card find in history.
A South African couple married this week after a bout of unusually cold weather allowed them to fulfill a light-hearted promise to tie the knot the next time Johannesburg was covered in snow. A radio station jumped into action to help pull off the spur-of-the-moment pledge.
Stephen Gustafson says he didn't think twice about running to rescue his dog when she was dangling from the jaws of an alligator last Friday afternoon in Lake County. Fla. He took a flying leap to land right on the alligator's back in the water.
A recently adopted dog saved a nine-month old infant who had stopped breathing last Sunday. The dog, named Duke, jumped into bed to wake them after sensing the daughter not breathing in her crib.
After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept what park rangers and fellow campers had been telling him: That no 15-year-old house dog with diminished hearing could survive that long without food or water among the coyotes and mid-August heat.
A disabled dachshund, adopted by a family when no one else wanted him, alerted the household to the raging fire. The blind and deaf dog with only three legs earned his family's gratitude this week after their log home in Oklahoma was destroyed.
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