British Scientists Make Breakthrough in Understanding Huntington's Disease

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Wednesday, 22 August 2007
British scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding Huntington's disease and are excited to be able to pioneer more effective treatment techniques.
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Homeless Credited with Saving Woman, 93, from Burning Car

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Monday, 03 September 2007
A homeless person who helped save an elderly woman from a burning car said she hoped people would look at the homeless a little differently from now on. "All people do good deeds everyday — we just happened to be homeless. We aren't homeless people first — we are people," she said. (WPBF-TV video and text)
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Empowering West African Women With Diesel Engines

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Saturday, 23 February 2008
mfp-machine.jpgThe mechanization of domestic tasks such as milling or husking grains (normally done with a mortar and pestle or grinding stone) can transform the time-consuming actions into profitable economic activities for rural West African women. The Diesel engines responsible for such transformation are being distributed in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with help from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Author, 96, Proves it's Never Too Late

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Monday, 02 April 2007
After his wife died a 96-year-old man decided to write. "He sent the finished manuscript to the London office of Random House. There the book sat for about a year until it came across the desk of editor Kate Elton, who described it as 'unputdownable.' " (REBECCA SANTANA, AP)
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A Guardian of Earth's Treasure Trove of Trees

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Thursday, 26 April 2007
"For 50 years, Britain's Peter Ashton has been studying — and trying to preserve — a wealth of diversity in Asia's tropical forests." (CS Monitor) Thanks to SG for the link!
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