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Posted by geri
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Saturday, 13 May 2006 |
This is a great little story of Tyler Bunch, an African-American boy living in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who found more than $1,700 cash in an envelope on the side of the road. Nearby, the 10-year-old found a checkbook with a man's name on it. He knew he should turn in the money, even though he wanted a new Game Boy. It turns out that after he did the right thing the man awarded him with $100, and he also received a $200 gift certificate from Wal-mart. He got his Game Boy! The cool thing is the money had been cashed from an insurance check the man's mother had just received after needing a roof replacement in the Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. So, Tyler (see his photo and read the full story) had such a good feeling about the roof, plus a generous reward for being honest and staving off greed.
At the May 6 Lamar County Board of Supervisors meeting, Sheriff Danny Rigel recognized him with a certificate: "He was admirable for what he did," Rigel said. "Hopefully, he'll inspire someone else to do the same thing." |
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Posted by Roger Marion
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
When you think of an electric car, you may imagine a vehicle that provides no power, no safety, no range, and taking forever to recharge. Now, think of George Clooney buying a new kind of electric car, a model that shatters all the stereotypes. 
Introducing . . . the Tango.
Why would Clooney buy a Tango? Along with jaw-dropping Porsche-esque performance, the Tango is good for the environment. Its fuel cost is eight times better than that of a typical gasoline car, amassing the equivalent of 195 miles per gallon. Such efficiency makes even a Prius seem like an SUV.
"Our goal is to make the Tango as recyclable/reusable as possible," explained Bryan Woodbury, the Vice President of Commuter Cars, Inc., the company that makes the Tango. In an exclusive GNN-i interview, Woodbury elaborated that in addition to the Tango's efficiency, "The lead acid batteries are recyclable so they get reborn as new batteries and they'll never end up in a landfill." |
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Read more... [195 Miles Per Gallon, Zero to 60 in Four Seconds... The Electric Supercar is Here]
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Posted by geri
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
According to Microfinance Times, 75 percent of all active microcredit
borrowers in Afghanistan are now women, many of whom use their loans to
start businesses. Beauty parlors, tailoring shops, and bakeries are
just some of the enterprises these women now own. Their efforts,
observers say, are indispensable in the struggle to reverse decades of
deprivation in Afghanistan. (Yahoo News)
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Posted by geri
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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
 New York— A nine-year-old student from Newark, New Jersey, has presented a money order for $128 to the United Nations relief effort in Darfur after touring the UN Headquarters in New York.
“My name is Junius O. Williams,” the youngster wrote on Friday in a letter addressed to Secretary-General Kofi Annan detailing his contribution and asking that it be used “for clothing” . . . |
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Read more... [Nine-Year-Old Student Donates Money to UN To Aid Darfur Victims]
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Posted by jimtjeant
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Sunday, 07 May 2006 |
It is not common to hear good news about Espanola, so I thought I would tell your readers this story.
A few weeks ago, on a Saturday evening when we were not at home, a car came around the corner and knocked down about 25 feet of the coyote fence in the back of our house.
 A week later, after breakfast, we noticed a car parked by the broken fence and a man and a woman were throwing new latillas up on the rocks in our yard. We thought to ourselves that the people who knocked the fence down had decided to fix it. But when we went out to speak to them, they told us that they had noticed what good care we took of our property and that we had even put a bench on the corner for the children to use while they waited for the school bus and God had told them that they should fix the fence for us. |
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Read more... [Good Neighbors in Espanola, NM]
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