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Coffee Customers Pay It Forward Like Never Before

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Posted by geri   
Friday, 21 November 2008
coffee.jpgEven in these tough times, it is becoming "downright common" for Starbucks customers at this drive-thru window to pay the bill for the car behind them. One cashier has even seen 15 cars of kindness in a row...

KUSA reports in this video from Loveland, Colorado that even in Wal-Mart people are paying it forward...
 

Encouraging People to Buy High-Efficiency Toilets

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Posted by geri   
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Manitoba is trying to encourage people to stop flushing so much water and money away. The province has announced a new WaterSmart conservation program that will provide rebates to people who buy dual-flush, high-efficiency toilets. (The Winnipeg Sun)
 

Woman Plunges Nine Stories, Walks Away

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Posted by geri   
Saturday, 15 November 2008
A Ukrainian woman who plunged 100 feet from her ninth floor flat survived without injury because she fell into a giant vat of grapes that cushioned her fall. (Ananova has a few more details)
 

Extra Cash? Turn in Your Techno-Junk for Money

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Posted by Bill Briggs, MSNBC   
Friday, 14 November 2008
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/images/stories/earth/cellphonepile.jpgAs a hungry grad student, Brandon Mendelson can sum up his financial status in two painful words: “broke” and “desperate.” He needed quick cash to help cover his living expenses, so he turned his techno-trash into digital gold.

Mendelson scanned his campus at SUNY Albany and saw possible salvation in the trash stream. Not beer bottles or discarded newspapers. Today’s garbage: his, and his friends' digital debris.
Read more... [Extra Cash? Turn in Your Techno-Junk for Money]
 

Man Follows His Dream of Twine

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Posted by geri   
Thursday, 13 November 2008
twine-man.jpgJames Frank Kotera wants to make his town of Highland, Wis., famous. He heard a voice one night that told him to make the world's largest ball of twine. Steve Hartman asks him why.
 
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