From Planet Green TV comes this rundown of their picks for the Top 5 animal rescues of the decade. An angel Dog, a pig who gets attention on the highway to rescue its owner and a goat warmer are three of the "Planet 100 Top 5 Superhero Animals."
Jessica was only a sixth grader when she learned that most girls in Rwanda are orphans, and they don't have the money or materials to attend school. Over the next several years, she rallied her classmates to raise money for rural Rwandan girls through bake sales, tee shirt sales and donation drives.
After a recent front page article in the Seattle Times caught the attention of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, he donated $25,000, bringing her total to $75,000 raised in three years.
The charity, Richard's Rwanda, now has five chapters in Seattle high schools and, after visiting the African country, Jessica has recruited a private girls' school there to help expand her fundraising work internationally.
According to a national survey released by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City’s legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic.
According to a Girl Scouts of America press release, the survey of 1,002 girls ages 13 to 17 "comes amid continuing controversy over super thin models who are dangerously underweight, (and charges that) the fashion industry’s preference for waif-like women has led to models engaging in obsessive dieting and extreme weight loss, as well as setting a poor example for teenage girls."
The study found that girls' friends and peers have much more influence over how they feel about their bodies than do fashion models. Eighty-two percent said that their peers and friends influenced how they felt about their bodies; 65 percent said it was their parents, and 62 percent reported another family member.
About three-quarters of the girls were happy with their bodies.
8 year-old Andrew has Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a developmental disorder that affects communication and social interaction. On an almost daily basis, his family and teachers at school would see Andrew cry, bite on his thumbs and lash out as if in pain. But he was unable to let them know what was wrong.
But a new iPhone application Andrew uses on an iPod has opened the doors to Andrew's mind: offering icons he can press like, "I'm hungry" and "I want to sit on your lap."
Since Andrew started using the device, his mother has added eight categories of words, emotions, phrases, songs and sentences for him to choose from.
Samuel Sennott, the 31-year-old co-developer at Penn State University who's been working with children in special education since he was 19, has changed Andrew's life, and many other people's lives.
Jennifer Francis credits her steadfast four-legged companion with saving her life: her mental health assistance dog, Spirit.
She and Spirit are proof that the burden of mental illness can be made lighter with the help of a specially trained service dog.
Spirit is not just any working dog. Trained by Hamilton-based Encouraging Paws Service Dogs (encouragingpaws.com), she knows more than 50 commands that help keep Francis safe.
From Planet Green TV comes this rundown of their picks for the Top 5 animal rescues of the decade. 
Jessica was only a sixth grader when she learned that most girls in Rwanda are orphans, and they don't have the money or materials to attend school. Over the next several years, she rallied her classmates to raise money for rural Rwandan girls through bake sales, tee shirt sales and donation drives.
According to a national survey released by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City’s legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic.
8 year-old Andrew has Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a developmental disorder that affects communication and social interaction. On an almost daily basis, his family and teachers at school would see Andrew cry, bite on his thumbs and lash out as if in pain. But he was unable to let them know what was wrong.
Jennifer Francis credits her steadfast four-legged companion with saving her life: her mental health assistance dog, Spirit.
