Project Rejuvenation is designed to encourage and invigorate homeless women in L.A. by giving each participant a complete makeover and making them models in a fashion show.
A team of 20 Nepalese Sherpas is planning to clean up rubbish and bring the bodies of dead climbers down from the top of Mount Everest -- the first clean up of its kind at such an altitude.
Army medic John Stone was enjoying a Yankee game when a woman began to choke ten rows away. He took over after 4 people failed to successfully clear her airway, receiving a seat upgrade from the team
Lalita Booth dropped out of school and turned to drugs after being abused as a teenager, but turned her life around after enrolling in a community college, and then becoming an honors student at a four-year university. Now, she's in the process of earning a Master's degree in business and public policy from Harvard University.
A Detroit-area man lost 365 pounds in the last three and a half years, thanks to a yoga class and its meditative messages. Weighing 540 pounds in 2006, Larry Sherman said the Yoga Shelter helped him to see that the heart of the problem was in his head.
Milwaukee urban farmer Will Allen, who envisions a five-story farm in the middle of a city is a world hero, according to Time magazine's Most Influential People," which honors ideas, innovations and actions that are "shaping our world.
President Obama named ten charities this week that will share the $1.4 million award that comes with his 2009 Nobel peace prize.
After experiencing a "tsunami of happiness" from orphans in Cambodia, a bike messenger from New York City started an organization that donates bikes to orphans around the world.
In a study published by the National Academy of Sciences last week, researchers provided the first laboratory evidence that cooperative and kind behavior is contagious and that it spreads from person to person to person. When people benefit from kindness they "pay it forward" by helping others who were not originally involved.
MIT graduate, Jodie Wu, had a vision that a bicycle could be more than just a machine for transportation, but a way to bring technology to the people who need it most. So, she created an organization to transform bicycles into a tool for income generation to empower the world's 550 million small farmers.
A new study published in Psychological Science finds that people who have a greater number of substantive conversations are more likely to rate themselves as happy. In fact, the researchers found that the happiest participants spent about 70 percent more time talking and had twice as many substantive conversations as the unhappiest participants.
Federal workers Lisa Grimm and Brian Norton were honored Monday by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association for guiding Doug White and his family to safety on April 12, 2009, when the pilot of their plane died during a flight.