Woman Gets Her Ring Back After 22 Years

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Posted by geri   
Friday, 03 November 2006
This story should inspire you NOT to give up, if you've ever lost something dear to you... A woman took time out of her day and searched on the internet to try to locate the owner of a ring found in a discarded vehicle at a junk yard. (AP)
 

Kindness is Returned When One Waitress Helps Out

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Posted by geri   
Thursday, 02 November 2006
A waitress in a small Texas diner lent money to a raggedy customer for bus fare, and bought her some pancakes. The customer came back and returned the favor sharing the good news that she'd gotten a job. "Can one act of friendliness start to generate peace? I believe it can. Peace begins with one person but spreads like warmed syrup. When I connect with my neighbors, they return it in kind," she wrote in her essay, This I Believe, for NPR News.
 

Photographers Double Adoption Rates for Foster Care Kids After Photo Exhibits

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Posted by Cristina Frick   
Friday, 27 October 2006
heartgallery-fayeThe file folders of foster kids are filled with bland pictures unable to express the children for who they are, unique individuals longing to be adopted by a loving family. Photographer Jackie Mathey had the idea to try to capture the soul of a foster child in a unique photo session that could express their distinct personality and capabilities. She then displayed the photos at a public exhibition hoping to inspire the audience toward adoption. Not only was the exhibit effective, it's been *extremely* effective...
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Liberian Leader Forgives his Father's Killers, Advises Countrymen to do Same

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Posted by geri   
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
Liberia's new Truth and Reconciliation Commission - set up in February to investigate human rights abuses between 1979 and 2003 - includes a bishop who unconditionally forgave the men who killed his father. Redemption is always possible, he says: "A good person can act bad, but if you forgive him, his God-nature can resurface"...
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One Man Has Sent 100,000 Students to College

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Posted by geri   
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
In a Northern California town, one man, made it possible for anyone who wanted to go to junior college to do so. He created a scholorship fund 60 years ago and to date has sent 100,000 young people to college. This year a check for $5 million financed the education of 5,500 students, some whose grandparents received the same grant, thanks to Frank Doyle. (Morning Edition - audio only) 
 
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