According to Dr. Marc Bekoff Ph.D., emotions like joy, love, empathy, compassion, kindness, and grief can readily be shared by improbable friends including predators and prey such as a cat and a bird, a snake and a hamster, and a lioness and a baby oryx.
Since leaving the army, Chris's days have been--well, lonely. He missed the camaraderie and closeness of fellow soldiers. A little Puggle (Pug and Beagle mix) has changed that.
Every year, the SPCA needs to find homes for thousands of dogs that have been abused, abandoned, or just forgotten. The dogs may be mutts, but they are smart -- and this organization of animal lovers in New Zealand decided to prove it. They have been training three shelter dogs to drive a Mini Cooper.
We can learn a lot by looking back on the fifth anniversary of the Amish schoolhouse shootings, to the striking actions of the Amish community following the murders when they immediately expressed forgiveness to the shooter's family.
Fighting back tears, the father of a 6-year-old killed in Friday's school shooting shared with reporters some surprising words of sympathy for the gunman's family.
A decree recently signed by the Turkmen President ordered government ministries to plant 3 million trees in 2013 with the aim of transforming the desert Central Asian nation into a blooming garden. Radio Free Europe reports that 465,000 public-sector employees, including those working at schools and universities in the country, took shovels in hand on March 10 and spent the day planting 755,000 trees.
Dedicated to the goal of preserving the open road for future generations of riders, Harley-Davidson is mobilizing its riders worldwide to help plant 50 million trees by 2025. The initiative, called Renew the Ride and announced last week, is the latest global mission and call to action for Harley riders.
The European Union has scored a series of mini-victories in recent months and is ending 2012 in perhaps the best shape of the past four years.
Contrary to what you may have heard, new retirees are doing better financially than previous generations, according to research being published on Wednesday by a mutual fund industry trade group.
A new type of financial instrument is challenging the idea that giving and investing are separate and distinct. The social impact bond (SIB) is an experimental hybrid that applies a profit motive to some of the most intractable social problems. The government of Canada added itself to a short list of agencies around the world considering SIB programs, which can be seen as an alternative to charitable donations -- great for investors looking to place capital in a way that will generate economic and social value at the same time.
U.S. stocks closed out 2012 with their strongest day in more than a month. Not only that, the S&P 500 ended the year up 13.4 percent since January 1 of last year, its best performance since 2009. The Dow Jones average added 7.3% for the year and the Nasdaq jumped 16%.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid hit a five-year low last week, and residential construction surged in December, the latest signs that the U.S. economic recovery remains on track.
Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site that pairs indie-minded inventors, filmmakers and entrepreneurs with online investors, fully funded more than 18,000 projects in 2012. The website's year-end analysis shows that more than 2.2 million people pledged a total of nearly $320 million. 17 projects raised more than $1 million each
California did the impossible, declared Gov. Jerry Brown in his State of the State address. California has once again confounded its critics, he said, basking in the glow of a new optimism from a recovering economy, budget surplus and fresh political victories.
Employers around the world are more optimistic about business growth and think more money will be spent on talent development this year. That's according to a Right Management survey of more than 2,000 senior human resource executives in 14 countries. In the US, the number of job openings spiked again in March.
After a former college student shared her heartbreaking family story on CNN, her $54,000 student loan was completely forgiven, thanks to a JPMorgan Chase program.
The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network's first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.
Throughout all the turmoil for the US economy in 2011, U.S. stocks have been surprisingly resilient. "We believe this is a testament to a combination of U.S. economic resilience, U.S. corporate financial strength and pricing power, and severe relative undervaluation of equities," said Thomas Lee, chief U.S. equity strategist with JPMorgan. Lee has compiled eight reasons why he will remain optimistic in 2012
In the biggest victory for consumers since Netflix's recent mea culpa, Bank of America said today that it was abandoning its plan to charge customers a $5 fee every time they use their debit cards. The bank relented, but only after other large banks had indicated that they would not impose similar fees.
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