When five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake in 1982, they didn’t plan on making it a tradition. But that’s what it became.
Every five years for the past three decades, John Wardlaw, John Dickson, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney and John Molony have been meeting at the California lake and taking the same photo.
New Jersey Olympic swimmer Cullen Jones has a reason to swim.
He nearly died in the water. At age five, he didn’t know how to swim. Days after watching her son almost drown, she enrolled him in swimming lessons.
19 years later, after becoming an Olympian gold medalist in Beijing, Cullen is using his status to help battle the shocking statistic of Africa-Americans, especially children, who die every year in the water.
New Jersey Olympic swimmer Cullen Jones has a reason to swim.
He nearly died in the water. At age five, he didn’t know how to swim. Days after watching her son almost drown, she enrolled him in swimming lessons.
19 years later, after becoming an Olympian gold medalist in Beijing, Cullen is using his status to help battle the shocking statistic of Africa-Americans, especially children, who die every year in the water.
Three of the hospitals taking care of people wounded in the Colorado theater shooting said Wednesday they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills for the 22 victims.
Some of the wounded, many of them young, are uninsured and face mounting hospital bills.
Among the uninsured victims of the movie-theater attack is 23-year-old, Caleb Medley. His family and friends set a goal of raising $500,000 to cover his hospital bills and were nearly halfway there on Wednesday.
(READ the AP story from MSNBC)
Job openings grew again in July, as more than 190,000 positions opened up since June. The total number of job openings rose to 4,301,384, the highest so far this year, according to the Simply Hired trend tracker.
A rise in openings could mean hiring will pick up in the coming months. “It typically takes one to three months to fill a job,” reports the Associated Press.
Two cubs from one of the world’s most endangered species are being hand-reared at a Mexican zoo. The albino cubs were born in Loro animal park on Friday.
The Mexican-born cubs were born to white tigers especially imported into the Latin American country. ‘Loro’ zoo has been instrumental in helping preserve the endangered species with a specialist breeding programme to save the endangered big cats.
Two cubs from one of the world’s most endangered species are being hand-reared at a Mexican zoo. The albino cubs were born in Loro animal park on Friday.
The Mexican-born cubs were born to white tigers especially imported into the Latin American country. ‘Loro’ zoo has been instrumental in helping preserve the endangered species with a specialist breeding program to save the endangered big cats.
The first child in history to receive a trachea fashioned by his own stem cells has shown remarkable progress since the initial transplant two years ago, marking a new record for the novel procedure.
Ciaran Finn-Lynch, the now 13-year-old boy from the UK, is breathing normally and no longer needs anti-rejection medication, researchers reported in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Lancet.
The Obama administration unveiled plans Tuesday to ramp up solar energy production, offering incentives for solar developers to cluster projects on 285,000 acres of federal land in the western U.S and opening an additional 19 million acres of the Mojave Desert for new power plants.
When Barack Obama entered the White House, the country had no solar projects in the planning stages, said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar who drew a sharp contrast with the country’s current rush to build plants.
A gifted musician who was shot in the head during the “Dark Knight” massacre last week will likely not sustain any major brain damage thanks to a birth defect that her pastor called “a miracle”.
The shotgun pellet reportedly entered her brain at the exact point of a barely-detectable defect – a tiny vein of fluid extending through her skull that only a CAT scan could catch.
Doctors said the bullet traveled through the vein, just missing the vital parts of Anderson’s brain.
(READ the story in the NY Daily News)
Christian Bale, the hero in the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” on Tuesday visited victims of last week’s mass shooting who were wounded in a Colorado theatre where the movie was premiering.
“The patients were really happy to meet Bale,” said a hospital official.
Bale, who also met with Gov. John Hickenlooper, told hospital officials he was visiting the injured but requested them not to tell the media.
Christian Bale, the hero in the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” on Tuesday visited victims of last week’s mass shooting who were wounded in a Colorado theatre where the movie was premiering.
“The patients were really happy to meet Bale,” said a hospital official.
Bale, who also met with Gov. John Hickenlooper, told hospital officials he was visiting the injured but requested them not to tell the media.
A shivering local artist in North Carolina ran to the thrift store to get a sweater during an outdoor showing of her artwork.
While there, she spied 2 large paintings for $10, perfect items to paint over and thus save herself the expensive cost of wholesale canvas.
What she didn’t know at the time was the origin of the bright abstract art, and how much money she would lose if she did lay brush strokes of her cat paintings on top.
A site called Imgur was designed to share photos with social networks and online communities.
Take a look at this amazing collection of photos depicting the beauty of mother nature and the best of human ingenuity. You can see the 48 photos in a larger slideshow at the Imgur site, here.
File photo, right, by Natanh vua Morguefile
A site called Imgur was designed to share photos with social networks and online communities.
Take a look at this amazing collection of photos depicting the beauty of mother nature and the best of human ingenuity. You can see the 48 photos in a larger slideshow at the Imgur site, here.
Even though she was well known as a physicist, Sally Ride became famous for being the first American woman astronaut to enter space. A trailblazer when the 1983 Challenger mission launched, she also became, at age 32, the youngest American to enter space, a record still unbroken.
Ride died peacefully on July 23, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to the obituary released by her company, Sally Ride Science, which creates programs to keep preteens and their teachers engaged in science:
“Sally’s historic flight into space captured the nation’s imagination and made her a household name. She became a symbol of the ability of women to break barriers and a hero to generations of adventurous young girls. After retiring from NASA, Sally used her high profile to champion a cause she believed in passionately—inspiring young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, to become scientifically literate, and to consider pursuing careers in science and engineering.”
In 1987, she left NASA to work at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control. In 1989, Ride joined the faculty at the University of California San Diego as a professor of physics and director of the California Space Institute. In 2001 she founded her own company.
The 61-year-old also co-wrote seven science books for children
She is survived by her female partner of 27 years, Tam O’Shaughnessy, her mom and family, her staff of 40 at Sally Ride Science; and many friends and colleagues around the country.
Read another tribute from a colleague, “Thank you, Sally Ride,” at CNN.
Following his visit with survivors of the deadly Colorado shooting spree, President Barack Obama said he heard many remarkable stories of heroism.
The anecdote he most recalled, though, wasn’t about a parent saving a child, or a boyfriend tending to a girlfriend. It was the moving account of best friends – two young women whose bond was put to the ultimate test when one was shot in the neck.
With blood spurting from her wound, 19-year-old Allie Young urged her friend, Stephanie Davies, 21, to flee. “Stephanie refused.”
“I don’t know how many people at any age would have the presence of mind that Stephanie did, or the courage that Allie showed,” President Obama said. “And so, as tragic as the circumstances of what we’ve seen today are, as heartbreaking as it is for the families, it’s worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young Americans like Allie and Stephanie, because they represent what’s best in us, and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come.”
(WATCH the video below or read the story from Whitehouse.gov)
Following his visit with survivors of the deadly Colorado shooting spree, President Barack Obama said he heard many remarkable stories of heroism.
The anecdote he most recalled, though, wasn’t about a parent saving a child, or a boyfriend tending to a girlfriend. It was the moving account of best friends – two young women whose bond was put to the ultimate test when one was shot in the neck.
With blood spurting from her wound, 19-year-old Allie Young urged her friend, Stephanie Davies, 21, to flee. “Stephanie refused.”
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, still recovering from wounds after being shot last year, traveled high up into the French Alps on Monday with her astronaut husband Mark Kelly.
In bright sunshine and sub-zero temperatures she traveled by cable car from Chamonix to the height of 12,605 feet (3,842 meters) taking in a breathtaking view of the Swiss, French and Italian mountain ranges which converge near the French town.
(SEE the Reuters photos at MSNBC)
Anthony DeVergillo is living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease that is causing his muscles to slowly deteriorate. But he has not allowed that to slow him down. This rosy-eyed optimist started a blog that celebrates his ‘abilities’ — moving beyond what others describe as his disabilities.
“I started a blog a little over a year ago called The Optimist’s Guide to Life,” Anthony wrote in an email to the Good News Network. “My mission was to show people that life is a beautiful thing and should not be wasted — to show that, with optimism, they can accomplish their goals, live life to the fullest, and inspire others along the way.”
