Three Tennessee homecoming king nominees made a unanimous and touching decision that no matter who won, they would give the crown to a beloved student who has Williams Syndrome, a neurological disorder that inhibits learning and speech.
At the Unionville Community High School’s basketball homecoming ceremony, the teens turned over the honor to junior Scotty Maloney.
Her parents were going bankrupt after her mom became completely disabled and needed full-time nursing home care. Ttheir daughter wasn’t told they were going broke, but she knew — and decided to something.
What Shelby did was basically start farming — at the age of 9. She got a loan from her grandma and bought chickens — lots of chickens.
Her parents were going bankrupt after her mom became completely disabled and needed full-time nursing home care. Their daughter wasn’t told they were going broke, but she knew — and decided to something.
What Shelby did was basically start farming — at the age of 9. She got a loan from her grandma and bought chickens — lots of chickens.
New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker has saved a woman from a house fire, shoveled the driveway of a local resident and invited families to stay at his house after Hurricane Sandy when the power was out. Now, the Newark politician has saved a dog who was left out in the frigid temperatures for hours.
A television crew for New York’s WABC saw the dog shivering in the cold on the front step of a home in Newark on Thursday night. They stopped back several times to see if the dog had been taken inside, but it had not.
So, they tweeted Mayor Booker about to see if he could help…
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New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker has saved a woman from a house fire, shoveled the driveway of a local resident and invited families to stay at his house after Hurricane Sandy when the power was out. Now, the Newark politician has saved a dog who was left out in the frigid temperatures for hours.
A television crew for New York’s WABC saw the dog shivering in the cold on the front step of a home in Newark on Thursday night. They stopped back several times to see if the dog had been taken inside, but it had not.
So, they tweeted Mayor Booker about to see if he could help…
Young Muslims and Jews are making friendships through an organization that builds one-on-one relationships within the two communities. The group is called NewGround, and it is building bridges, partly through the sharing of personal stories.
A young Muslim neurosurgeon explains he was orphaned as a child and was raised by a Jewish family, who insisted he be reared in the Islamic faith. A Jewish woman spoke of her childhood memories of her grandparents, Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe.
“California did the impossible,” declared Gov. Jerry Brown in his State of the State address. California has “once again confounded” its critics, he said, basking in the glow of a new optimism from a recovering economy, budget surplus and fresh political victories.
“We have wrought in just two years a solid and enduring budget,” Brown said. “And, by God, we will persevere and keep it that way for years to come.
Eating more fruit and vegetables may make young people calmer, happier and more energetic in their daily life, new research from New Zealand’s University of Otago suggests.
Department of Psychology researchers investigated the relationship between day-to-day emotions and food consumption. The results showed a strong day-to-day relationship between more positive mood and higher fruit and vegetable consumption, but not other foods.
Eating more fruit and vegetables may make young people calmer, happier and more energetic in their daily life, new research from New Zealand’s University of Otago suggests.
Department of Psychology researchers investigated the relationship between day-to-day emotions and food consumption. The results showed a strong day-to-day relationship between more positive mood and higher fruit and vegetable consumption, but not other foods.
Over the past 100 years, mercury concentrations have doubled in the top layer of the world’s oceans. That’s why more than 140 governments meeting at a United Nations forum in Geneva, including the U.S., China and India, have agreed to a global, legally-binding treaty to address mercury, a notorious heavy metal with significant health and environmental effects.
The Minamata Convention on Mercury – named after a city in Japan where serious health damage occurred as a result of mercury pollution in the mid-20th Century – provides controls and reductions across a range of products, processes and industries where mercury is used, released or emitted.
Over the past 100 years, mercury concentrations have doubled in the top layer of the world’s oceans. That’s why more than 140 governments meeting at a United Nations forum in Geneva, including the U.S., China and India, have agreed to a global, legally-binding treaty to address mercury, a notorious heavy metal with significant health and environmental effects.
The Minamata Convention on Mercury – named after a city in Japan where serious health damage occurred as a result of mercury pollution in the mid-20th Century – provides controls and reductions across a range of products, processes and industries where mercury is used, released or emitted.
Buzzfeed threw together some tiny video clips of people doing amazing things, like turning one’s morning toast-making experience into sublime artistic expression, and waterskiing on one’s hands.
Even a boy with crutches makes an athletic appearance by flipping a skateboard underneath himself while moving over a barrier.
It was a star-studded night. After recording her new song at Rotation Records, Amy Hosmer left the studio. She was greeted by about 75 enthusiastic fans. She smiled shyly and thanked everyone for coming.
Not what we’d expect from a rock star. But Amy isn’t a typical star.
Amy has brain cancer.
Scott and Lauren Sterling received an email message from Peru that tugged at their hearts. It said, “We need a mommy and daddy.” Five individual irresistible pictures were also attached.
The message was on behalf of five Peruvian children, ages 9 to 17, who became orphans when their parents passed away from tuberculosis.
So, how did the children know about the Sterlings thousands of miles away in Blue Springs, Missouri?
The Rev. Jackson Crum told members of his Chicago Park Community Church this month that their great city is struggling and needs hope.
As ushers distributed envelopes stuffed with bills large and small, Crum told members of his flock to put the nearly $12,000 to work in the corners of the community where they think it will do the most good.
The U.S. Marine Corps, seeing a record suicide rate and thousands of veterans with post-traumatic stress, is studying how to help its troops by possibly incorporating meditation, yoga stretching and mindfulness practices into their day.
Marine Corps officials say they will build a curriculum that would integrate mindfulness-based techniques into their training if they see positive results from a pilot project.
At the age of 66, Walter Lange was setting out to prove great luxury watches do not have to be Swiss.
In a remote corner of what was East Germany, Lange aimed to rebuild a venerable watchmaking business whose history reads like a chronicle of 20th century Europe.
Now watchmakers in the small town of Glashuette again sit bent over tables, magnifying glasses strapped to their eyes, polishing German silver and engraving balance cocks by hand.
Sports Illustrated has named Conner and Cayden Long the 2012 SportsKids of the Year for their inspiring triathlon performances. Seven-year-old Cayden is unable to walk or talk on his own, but his nine-year-old brother Conner had an idea that would allow the two to participate in sports together.
Conner pulls his brother with amazing determination letting him ride in a raft or cart, as the experience bringing them closer together with every race.
A flash mob brought “Smiles returning to the faces” of crowds in an employment office in Madrid, Spain. Musicians planted themselves among the jobless, hiding their instruments, until one lone oboe began to play the opening notes to Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles.
Enthusiastic spectators flocked to Washington for Monday’s inauguration, where they braved chilly temperatures and heavy security to witness the ceremonial start of President Obama’s second term.
Spirits were high among the approximately one million revelers, as they took in a day of pageantry and patriotic music.
