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Woman’s Accidental Call During Emergency Helps Save Her Life

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:23:24 GMT

Loretta Smith, 70, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was having a stroke last week when she tried to call her son. Instead she got Kenny Crater, 28, a student who lives in Broomfield, Colo., near Denver. It was a mis-dialed call that ended up saving her life.

“If I would have kept laying on that floor,

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74-year-old Jane Fonda on Life's Third Act (Top Videos)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:49:15 GMT

Jane Fonda thinks perhaps the most important revolution today is the "longevity revolution". But society is still living with the old paradigm of aging seeing it as a "decline into decrepitude".

Dubbed by Fonda as our "Third Act", the 34 years we live beyond the lifespan of our great grandparents can be seen as a developmental
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Donors Step Up for 101-year-old Evicted Woman in Detroit

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:19:52 GMT

A fund has been created and a guardian angel stepped forward for a 101-year-old Detroit woman displaced from her home by eviction.

A longtime member of her church took in the wheelchair-bound woman, whose son couldn't keep up with the taxes. 68 year-old Polly Cheeks was a student in her Sunday school class long ago.

What's
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Reddit Community Helps Machete Victim Defend Kenyan Orphans, Raising $65K in One Day

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:39:28 GMT

The online news-sharing community, Reddit, has come to the rescue more than once when a member has posted a painful or inspiring story.

Yesterday, a member posted the photo of a heroic Kenyan man who was attacked in the face with a machete after trying to defend an orphanage from a gang of thugs. He asked if the people
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Hero Air Controller Guides Couple to Safety After Pilot Passes Out

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:06:42 GMT

When one of the nation's 15,000 air traffic controllers does something wrong, you always hear about it. When one of them does something right, averting disaster, it's called a save, and many times we don't hear about these stories.

Charlie Rohrer, a controller for 22 years, had just finished a class on how to recognize the symptoms of hypoxia. A week
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Generous Americans Give More to Charity in 2011

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:35:20 GMT

Americans gave a total of nearly $347 billion to charity in 2011, a 7.5 percent increase over 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by Atlas of Giving.

The group, which measures and forecasts charitable giving in the United States, said giving expanded at a faster rate than overall economic growth for the year.

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A Runner for Cancer Decides to Become Oncologist After Losing Father

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:51:21 GMT

Jenna Norton is not your typical medical school applicant. In fact, until two years ago, she had never considered a career in medicine. It took Jenna seven years to graduate with a degree in Theatre, while working as a waitress and acting on the side. The death of her father, Henry, who passed away after a brief battle with
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Destress Your Life in 10 Easy Steps

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:49:30 GMT

The gloomy days of January can be the most miserable and stressful of the year, but it doesn't have to be this way. If you follow this ten step guide to destressing your life, then the next few weeks just might become the most serene and fulfilling ones of the year.

These really are easy steps like doing something pleasurable,
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Family Rescued from Seaplane Crash by Group of Good Samaritans

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:21:35 GMT

Some quick-thinking Good Samaritans were lifesavers for a Richardson, Tex. family whose small seaplane crashed into the ocean off the coast of a small Caribbean island near Honduras.

Andy Atkins, who was belted into his seat after the plane flipped upside down in the water, realized, "I'm not dead, but I've got to get out of here before
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Chinese New Year Offers Hope and Prosperity in Year of the Dragon

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:11:12 GMT

Chinese around the world will be wearing lots of red today, to celebrate the Lunar New Year marking the end of the disaster-filled "Year of the Rabbit" and to usher in a new year with more prosperity.

January 23 begins the Year of the Dragon, which should bring relief following 2011, which was foreseen by the Chinese calendar
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Billionaire Philanthropist to Give Millions to Help Fix Washington Monument

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:14:01 GMT

The billionaire philanthropist David M. Rubenstein will donate $7.5 million to help fix the shuttered, earthquake-damaged Washington Monument, government officials announced Thursday.

The gift once again confirmed Rubenstein’s status as a generous repeat benefactor for Washington’s endangered national icons.

It comes a month after he donated $4.5 million to the National Zoo’s cash-strapped giant panda program and seven months after a
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12 Things Happy People Do Differently

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:43:10 GMT

Studies conducted by positivity psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky point to 12 things happy people do differently to increase their levels of happiness. These are things that we can start doing today to feel the effects of more happiness in our lives. (Check out her book The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting
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NM Veteran Uses Own Money To Help Homeless Vets

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:29:48 GMT

About 5,000 disabled veterans live on the streets in New Mexico. So Shane D'Onofrio, a disabled vet who served in the U.S. Navy, created a non-profit organization called "What Would U Give".

D'Onofrio opens his home to veterans to help get them off the streets. He uses his own disability checks to run the job-training
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Playing Online Game, Words with Friends, Saves a Life Thousands of Miles Away

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:27:42 GMT

For many it is just a game, but for two couples who live half a world away from each other, Words with Friends was more that that, it was a life saver.

While Georgie Fletcher was playing the online scrabble game with Beth Legler, she happened to mention in passing that her husband was not feeling very well.

Mrs Legler told
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Transplant Nurse Donates Own Kidney to Patient

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:15 GMT

The way Clay Taber looks at it, he’s got three moms now, after a transplant nurse, practically a stranger, donated one of her healthy kidneys so that he might start married life untethered to a dialysis machine.

Allison Batson first heard about Taber, now 23, when a nurse at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital told her “it looks like we’ve got
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At SC Coffee Shop, Random Acts of Kindness Pay Forward Drinks for Two Years

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:09:01 GMT

If you're measuring the kindness at the Corner Perk in Bluffton, South Carolina, it's safe to say their cup runneth over. It's a cycle of generosity that started two years ago when an anonymous customer gave the barista $100 to pay the bills for the next customers in line.

The owner says the lady who started the pay-it-forward tradition kept it going
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New Miss America Heals Family Pain of Prison

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:05:05 GMT

The nation’s newest Miss America is a 23-year-old Wisconsin brunette who had long conversations with her family mulling whether or not to make her father’s jail time for mail fraud the heart of her campaign in the beauty pageant.

Laura Kaeppeler said she wants children of incarcerated adults to feel less alone, to have mentoring and as much of
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English Teenager is Hero on Stricken Costa Concordia Cruise Ship

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:03:00 GMT

A teenager from the West Midlands today told how he led a dramatic rescue of terrified passengers as chaos gripped the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner.

Dancer James Thomas acted as a human climbing frame to help 16 passengers into lifeboats after the luxury liner ran aground off the Italian coast, before toppling on to its side
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Caregiver Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:57:59 GMT

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. Some
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Businessman Gives $5,000 to Disabled Man After Specially-altered Car Stolen

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:41:41 GMT

A businessman has come forward to write a $5,000 check to Armando Fontaine, a disabled Miami man whose car was stolen on Monday night.

After seeing a news report on NBC Miami, the Coral Springs businessman – who wishes to remain anonymous – made the donation to help replace the car with wheelchair lift which is still
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