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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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Officials in a Jerusalem zoo have fitted a 55-pound spurred tortoise with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs. The 10-year-old turtle was unable to move herself forward with her front legs alone. So the zoo's staff built her a metal board with two wheels that can be strapped to her shell.
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Posted by stevegh
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
Dozens of men lifted a Bronx schoolbus to save a pregnant woman struck by the
bus, enabling the baby to be born before the woman died of her
injuries, the New York Post said Friday.
"All the community came to pull the bus ... They cared about that lady."
(Watch this CNN video, or read the story at the bottom,)
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Posted by stevegh
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
A site once home to a Cold War-era uranium processing plant and the focus of a contentious struggle to clean up toxic waste has re-emerged as a haven for wildlife and a memorial to those who worked to make the area safe. (AP story at Wiredispatch.com)
Photo below: Workers at the Waste Pits Project have removed more
than 740,000 tons of pit material and shipped the waste off site in
116 unit trains.
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Posted by bivvy
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
A UK teen was the object of bullying weighing 280 pounds (127 kg). But now he has lost 97 pounds (44kg) and become the country's top "Slimmer", named for the weight-loss club to which he turned for help in his bid to lose weight and ease the pain encountered at school.
"Jack says his character's changed completely since losing weight and eating healthier: My confidence and self-esteem has gone way up. Before, it was nonexistent."
Here is the story from Slimming World:
Eighteen year old Jack Mitchell from Sunderland has been
announced as the winner of Slimming World's Young Slimmer of the Year
2008 after losing a phenomenal 7½ stones (97 lbs).
Before
joining Slimming World, teenager Jack could barely face walking into a
shopping centre, let alone working in one of its brightest, busiest
stores. But since losing weight, Jack has turned his life around,
overcoming his shyness, beating the bullies that tormented him at
school and landing his dream job at the Disney Store.
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Posted by Tony Ciabattoni
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
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As an American living in Colombia, South America, Tony Ciabattoni's world has changed dramatically. Growing up learning to love and appreciate the sport of golf, he now finds himself in a metropolitan area of 1.5 million people with only two private golf courses and absolutely no place for the average citizen, especially children, to learn and play. Now he is helping to make his new community a better -- and more fun -- place, especially for the kids.
"I grew up playing public golf, and never dreamed that there were places with no public golf courses," said Tony. "It became my
DREAM that I could positively affect the lives of an entire
metropolitan area."
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal Sunday at the Beijing Olympics, swimming with the victorious U.S. 400-meter medley relay team, surpassing Mark Spitz for most golds in a single games.
The Baltimore kid, who was diagnosed with severe ADHD and medicated during the school week, has proven wrong his English Middle School teacher who said he would never be successful. (Watch the slide show or read the story at the bottom)
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
Torres' winning 2 silver medals in the Olympics was for all of us fortysomethings with clouded minds and sagging
bodies. It was for all of us parents who lose focus playing
chauffeur. It was for the divorcees who start over, the dreamers who
fight the dimming light, and the defiant ones who feel the doubts but keep
moving forward. Dara Torres is a 41 year old single mom and the oldest American swimmer ever to claim a spot on an Olympic swim team.
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Posted by stevegh
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
Traffic deaths in the USA last year dropped to the lowest level since
1994, and deaths per 100 million miles traveled are the lowest on
record, the government said Thursday. (photo courtesy of Sun Star)
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Posted by stevegh
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
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Forgetting your glasses can have happy consequences. A mistake in his usual lottery ticket numbers proved lucky for an
Indiana man who won $3 million in the Hoosier Lottery. ‘It pays to be blind,’ joked the Ind. grandfather who entered wrong number...
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Posted by stevegh
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
Two Georgia brothers, 13, and 9, raised more than $1,200 for an animal rescue group last year and this month they increased that amount substantially with a $5,000 donation, thanks to a parenting magazine, which held a Littlest Volunteers Contest. Their burgeoning natural dog biscuit business over the past two years has earned for charity $1,700 so far. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
To order biscuits: woofemdowndogbiscuits.com.
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