The world lost an island of genius yesterday when Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple died at age 56 of pancreatic cancer. There is no better tribute to Mr. Jobs than the script from a famous Apple TV commercial. Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently...
Every Thursday morning around 10:30 Dan walks into a Starbucks in Metro Detroit, takes out a list and proceeds to order dozens of drinks. The number depends on who is in the Michigan Cancer Center for chemotherapy treatments. Since his father's death in 2007, he keeps going back and buying coffee. Now, Starbucks fans are donating to the cause.
10,000 Uno's pizzas will be delivered to U.S. troops overseas in time for Super Bowl Sunday, thanks to the Evans family of Illinois who started Pizzas4Patriots in 2008. Supporters of the operation want to send soldiers a taste of home, including the shipping company DHL Express, which delivers the pizzas for no charge.
An Indonesian mountaineer who faced death threats while battling illegal loggers and a Bangladeshi lawyer who fought to keep old rusty ships from being dumped in her homeland are among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards.
Tom Porter says he doesn't think he's a hero, but he'll soon have a bronze medal that says he is. The Texas resident was awarded a Carnegie Hero medal for pulling a 1-year-old girl from a burning vehicle. 20 others were honored as heroes this week
Firefighters from Aldinga's Country Fire Service returned exhausted from fighting wild fires in the tough conditions of Adelaide Hills this morning. Sacrificing their lives to help save homes and livestock, these South Australian firefighters, many of them volunteers, arrived back home to find a message posted on the wall, a Thank-You from their fellow citizens.
As superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City Monday night, more than 10 feet of water flooded seven buildings of the NYU Medical Center. The facility lost power at the height of the storm and 20 newborn babies clinging to life from the neonatal intensive care unit needed to be carried down nine flights in dark stairways to waiting ambulances by heroic nurses and hospital staff using battery-operated life-saving equipment.
The Creative Director for Animals Australia made a video montage of beautiful humanitarian rescues that were on YouTube. She added some soaring music and it became a 4-minute antidote to all the depressing news lately.
Dan Kennedy was driving to work Tuesday morning near Salt Lake City when he saw a huge orange bag fall off the back of an armored Brink's truck. When he stopped to investigate, he found wads and wads of $50s and $100s — thousands of dollars stacked in plastic bags.
For more than three decades, nine women have been secretly baking and delivering hundreds of pound cakes in the middle of the night to people in Tennessee who could benefit from knowing that somebody out there loves them. They also secretly pay utility bills for widows or single moms in need. In all, they have contributed nearly $900,000 to the happiness of others.
Earlier this month, workers at France's national railway company, SNCF, delivered extraordinary customer service to help an elderly woman who boarded the wrong high speed train and was headed 250km in the wrong direction.
They came on their motor scooters by the hundreds. The community of Contamana - a remote town in eastern Peru - came out in force on Wednesday when their local airstrip needed lighting for an emergency medical night-flight.