A brave German Shepherd puppy was badly injured after he pushed a boy out of the path of a runaway truck and took the impact himself. Eight-month-old Geo has been hailed a hero by his adoring family after he averted tragedy on a family walk in Clacton-on-Sea, England.
As a Muslim woman who teaches classes about the Holocaust at a Catholic college, I am constantly frustrated by the negative media coverage of the Middle East. A documentary recently aired on Al Jazeera was an extremely heartening exception to the rule. The film, Jerusalem SOS, told the stories of Jews and Muslims saving each other's lives.
A list of famous celebrities who failed before they succeeded appeared in the Wall Street Journal some 20 years ago. From their stories comes the moral, 'Don't worry about failure.'
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President Barack Obama and the First Lady invited Star Wars Director George Lucas and a few of the cast members from his new film, Red Tails, to the White House Friday for a movie night. But the guests of honor were a few of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the black WW II aviators whose story -- brought to the big screen thanks to Lucas's own money -- is opening in theaters on January 20.
A year ago, the ABC program What Would You Do set up scenarios where people were stuck with a flat tire and compared reactions by pedestrians. AT one point they used a Muslim actor to play the stranded motorist. Hours went by and no one helped the man who was clad in the traditional scullcap. But at last, an extraordinary young gentleman came along to help.
Bob Delaney, an undercover cop who infiltrated the Genovese and Bruno crime families in the 1970's, knows what it's like to feel the stress of being alone and helpless, as if no one else understands. That's one of the curses of post-traumatic stress disorder, an anxiety that develops in response to a traumatic period. The 60-year-old hero cop has harnessed that experience for another career, helping the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars coping with PTSD.
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.
You're broke, you struggle with bills, then out of nowhere you find $30,000 in cash which only you will ever know about because the money belongs to someone who is dead. What do you do? Carol Sutor of Bristol, Pa., was in that situation on Thursday and decided to return the money to the family of the woman who had spent years saving it.
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.
The last of 171,000 known landmines in Mozambique has been destroyed, making it the first country cleared of the explosive traps.
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She is a hero to many kids and families. A Virginia single mom of five who struggles with MS, still has time to coach a youth football team even while working two jobs. Recently, thanks to the NFL's "Together We Make Football" Felicia Correa-Garcia was surprised by her own hero, retired American football star Brian Dawkins.
Formerly a visiting English teacher, Michael Brosowski launched the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation in 2004 that has helped more than 350 Vietnamese youngsters get off the streets and into school and safe shelter -- and has provided more than 2,500 children with education, health, housing, career and legal assistance.
Duane James, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was driving past the parking lot of a drugstore on May 19, 2000, when he saw a woman being robbed and he decided to intervene although the man weilded a knife.
Children rode bicycles with signs exclaiming “Firefighters ROCK,†and dogs meandered with sandwich boards reading “Thank You,†-- all for the men and women who decided to stand as the only thing between the town’s homes and raging fires.
When a man rolled off the platform and onto the train tracks yesterday around 1:00pm, one man jumped right in after him, and another soon followed.
A Michigan man on vacation noticed debris strewn on the road leading to an embankment and almost kept going. Two kids are alive today because he turned around.
Tributes have hailed Frances Kelsey as a hero since her death on Friday. The Canadian doctor fought tenaciously to keep thalidomide out of US pharmacies.
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