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7 Ways to Make Yourself Happier in the Next Hour

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Posted by GRETCHEN RUBIN   
Friday, 06 April 2007
You can make yourself happier — and it doesn’t have to be a long-term ambition. You can start right now. In the next hour, check off as many of the following items as possible. Each of these accomplishments will lift your mood, as will the mere fact that you’ve tackled and achieved some concrete goals. The first one is to boost your energy, which can be an easy, quick transformation...
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World Bank Gives Africa $164.5 Million for Internet Connections

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Posted by geri   
Friday, 06 April 2007
The World Bank approved a financing package of US$164.5 million in grants and credits for Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar to establish high-speed connectivity to make the countries more competitive...
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Update: Iraq Unites Behind Singing Idol

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Posted by geri   
Friday, 06 April 2007
In February we featured a video from an 'American Idol'-type hit show in the Muslim world. The beautiful voice of Shada was uniting Iraqis: "Iraqi Sectarian Lines Dissolve Each Friday Night"... She has now won the competition, and, as AFP reports, "for one night, the dream of Shada kept fear and disunity at bay, as millions of Iraqis from across the sectarian and ethnic divide crowded round television sets to watch her croon into a microphone and vote for victory." (Full AFP story)... She cried for Iraq, whose streets exploded in Victory celebration. Watch the video -- originally published by AP and CNN, spread via YouTube (2:01)
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Schoolgirl Hero Acted on Common Sense to Save Busload

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Posted by geri   
Friday, 06 April 2007
"A Queensland schoolgirl who police say may have saved the lives of a busload of students with her quick wits and steely nerve has shrugged off her bravery, saying it was just common sense." (...and, it was. She was raised on a farm, operating machinery, so downshifting the bus to first gear as the driver slumped was her first move.) Brisbane Times has two reports here, and here.
 

The Martin Luther King of Football Dies (Tribute)

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Posted by geri   
Thursday, 05 April 2007
Eddie Robinson, the legendary football coach of Grambling State University for 56 years, has passed on but is being hailed as one of the most decent, inspiring, motivational figures for black men of the last half century. He transformed the small historically black college in Louisiana into a powerhouse of football talent. Given little money or staff and barely a field to practice on when he arrived in 1941, he eventually guided more than 200 players into the NFL and won 408 games over his expansive career. Most inspiring though was the way he stood his ground in the deep south as a proud man in the face of Jim Crow laws and a college football good-ol'-boy's network that implied no black man could do as well as a white man...
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