Stacie Tonn was headed down a Kansas highway behind a livestock truck. A small piglet suddenly fell out, but the semi-trailer kept going, so Stacie brought the animal home to her husband who is a veterinarian.
Lucky to be alive, the pig was unconscious for two days.
That’s when Stacie’s dog stepped in — licking the pig clean while she was force-fed with a bottle of milk.
The piglet now thinks she is a dog and friendship has taken hold, with the retriever and the orphan farm animal becoming best friends.
A new government survey shows the bear population in a crucial part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.
The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear sub-populations, totals at least 1,013, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced yesterday the hiring of approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians – to include nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers – as well as nearly 300 support staff to supplement its existing 20,590 mental health staff.
Anticipating the needs of returning US Veterans, the VA says it is moving quickly to ensure that all Veterans have access to quality mental health care.
7-year-old Annie Clark has just won a national handwriting award, even though she has no hands.
The Pennsylvania first-grader was born without hands but has learned determination in her quest to be a good student.
Her school, Wilson Christian Academy, first honored her penmanship as the best of any student in her school. As a first-round winner, she advanced to the next level and Wednesday received one of two Zaner-Bloser national penmanship awards — the second disabled student to win the new award.
Annie received the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellent Penmanship, a trophy and $1,000.
All the great old baseball parks in America are gone — except Fenway Park. Today marks 100 years since the Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway, tangling with the “Green Monster” in left field and testing their skills against historic rival the New York Yankees.
This evening the Red Sox and Yankees pair up again for the centennial celebration of the quirky building squeezed into a downtown neighborhood, which turned out to be the most beloved aspect of being a Boston fan.
For many Americans, the lasting legacy of Dick Clark will be his role as a stroke survivor determined to live a normal life
Clark died of a heart attack Wednesday at age 82. He had suffered a debilitating stroke in 2004 and had to learn to walk and talk again — often with difficulty.
But Clark didn’t give in to the symptoms of that stroke, which included slurred, slowed speech and partial paralysis. It was assumed that Clark would have to step down from his iconic “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” duties, but he came back in 2005 co-hosting with Ryan Seacrest.
A painting – nearly five centuries old and worth millions – that was taken by the Nazis in World War II has been returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owner by U.S. officials.
“Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged By A Rascal” by Italian artist Girolamo de’ Romani was one of 70 items plundered from the collection of Frederico Gentili di Giuseppe, an Italian Jew who had lived in Paris, according to the Reuters article, here.
Also in the news recently, a touching story about a girl who survived the Holocaust and the surprising kindness of her childhood neighbors.
The former neighbor of the Dutch Holocaust survivor traveled to the United States to hand-deliver two sets of china, dishes that her family left behind before they fled to Switzerland. The family instead was led to Auschwitz where the girl’s brothers and parents were killed in a Nazi death camp. Last week, the now-elderly woman celebrated the heirloom’s return serving dinner with the bowls and plates.
A painting – nearly five centuries old and worth millions – that was taken by the Nazis in World War II has been returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owner by U.S. officials.
“Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged By A Rascal” by Italian artist Girolamo de’ Romani was one of 70 items plundered from the collection of Frederico Gentili di Giuseppe, an Italian Jew who had lived in Paris, according to the Reuters article, here.
Also in the news recently, a touching story about a girl who survived the Holocaust and the surprising kindness of her childhood neighbors.
“Scientists have long known that people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of heart attacks,” says an AP report. Now, more studies are confirming positive psychology as a way to cut those risks.
A recent Harvard review of dozens of studies concludes that being upbeat and optimistic does seem to help to protect against heart disease.
Rather than focusing only on how to lessen heart risks, “it might also be useful to focus on how we might bolster the positive side of things,” said lead researcher Julia Boehm of the Harvard School of Public Health.
A dramatic breakthrough in breast cancer research will lead to a revolution in the way the disease will be diagnosed and treated in years to come, leading cancer specialists said yesterday.
Researchers have discovered that breast cancer is not a single disease with a limited number of treatments. Instead, there are ten different unique genetic fingerprints, with a wide variety of potential therapies that can be tailored to individual patients.
Tornado survivors in Woodward, Okla., are proving that even in the midst of devastation, treasures can be found and hope can be restored.
Over the weekend, disasterous tornados tore through the Midwest, killing six. One family barely got away before their house was completely destroyed. Mom had been watching TV with her wedding ring on the table.
But amid the rubble, Emilee Neagle’s wedding ring was located the next day after a painstaking search by friends who dug through the debris with a metal detector for eight hours.
Tornado survivors in Woodward, Okla., are proving that even in the midst of devastation, treasures can be found and hope can be restored.
Over the weekend, disasterous tornados tore through the Midwest, killing six. One family barely got away before their house was completely destroyed. Mom had been watching TV with her wedding ring on the table.
Emperor penguins in Antarctica are far more plentiful than previously thought, a study that used extremely high-resolution imagery snapped by satellites has revealed.
“It surprised us that we approximately doubled the population estimate,” said a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey and lead author of a paper published Friday in the journal PLoS One.
Six-year-old Drew Cox’s father was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer three months ago. Since then, this sweet Texas boy has been selling lemonade to help his father with medical bills.
When word spread about the boy, crowds from the surrounding area showed up on Saturday giving donations, mingling with neighbors and sipping lemonade.
Thanks to a short film, a 9-year-old boy, who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store, was treated to the best day of his life when dozens of people surprised him with a flashmob to play his games. The imaginative boy entrepreneur, Caine Monroy, became an internet sensation when the video, called Caine’s Arcade, went viral (with 2.1 million views to date).
By the time the filmmaker, Nirvan Mullick, stumbled upon the boy’s homemade arcade, Caine had spent countless weekends building the many games from cardboard boxes piled in the back of the shop.
In this amazing video an unresponsive nursing home patient reacts to hearing music that he loved from his era. Previously hunched over, his eyes widen, his whole being “quickens”. He recalls who he is and how his favorite songs were sung.
The nursing home music program hopes to transform the lives of residents — especially those experiencing dementia — by giving them iPods full of their favorite music.
The clip below is part of a documentary called Alive Inside, which follows social worker Dan Cohen as he creates personalized iPod playlists for people in elder care facilities, hoping to reconnect them with the music they love, reports NPR News.
Cohen says the YouTube video of Henry is a great example of the link between music and memory. Cohen says his goal is “to make access to personalized music the standard of care at nursing facilities.”
Alive Inside screens April 18, 20 and 21 at the Rubin Museum in New York City.
You can learn more, and see additional clips from the film, at the Music & Memory website: www.musicandmemory.org.
Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation’s capital Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home.
The world’s most traveled spaceship took off at daybreak from Cape Canaveral, Fla., bolted to the top of its modified 747 jumbo jet for the trip.
Three hours later, the pair took a few spins around Washington — where normally no planes are allowed to fly — at an altitude of just 1,500-feet, before the retired shuttle was grounded for good.
It was the talk of the town all afternoon as workers throughout the city rushed to rooftops and tourists trained their cameras on the sky. Car accidents were reported as drivers craned to see the sight.
The duo touched down at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. The Discovery will be towed a few miles away to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum annex, where its genius as a reusable rocket will be on display beginning Friday.
The volcanoes of Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity into the UK under government-backed plans for thousands of miles of cables across the ocean floor, taking advantage of abundant geothermal energy there.
The web of sea-floor cables – called interconnectors – planned for the next decade would link the UK to a Europe-wide supergrid. The supergrid would combine the wind and wave power of northern Europe with solar projects such as Desertec in southern Europe and north Africa to deliver reliable, clean energy to meet climate change targets and reduce dependence on fossil fuel imports.
Stacie Tonn was headed down a Kansas highway behind a livestock truck. A small piglet suddenly fell out, but the semi-trailer kept going, so Stacie brought the animal home to her husband who is a veterinarian.
