Today marks the 98th anniversary of the birth of Iowa’s greatest hero, Norman E. Borlaug, the farm boy who received the Nobel Peace Prize for starting the “Green Revolution” and known as “the man who saved more lives than any other person who has ever lived.”
There are several birthday tributes planned for Borlaug, who died in 2009, including a new museum and Youth Institute to promote efforts to alleviate starvation.
When a 17-year-old St. Petersburg, Fla., girl did a good deed by taking a shelter dog for a walk, she didn’t think the pup would return the favor.
But Mabeline, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, did – and then some. On a recent Saturday afternoon, the volunteer took the then-homeless dog for a standard walk near Friends of Strays animal shelter.
A registered sexual predator attacked the girl, grabbing her by the hair and pinning her down on the ground.
Mitsubishi electric car owners in Japan will soon be able to use the family car as an emergency generator, using their EV’s batteries to power a home.
The MiEV Power Box is an adapter that plugs into the i-MiEV’s quick charging port. Instead of recharging the car’s drive battery, it does the exact opposite, pulling 1500 watts of electricity to keep the lights on when the power goes out.
For photographer Bob Carey and his wife Linda, a big hairy man in a pink tutu has taken on special meaning in their fight against breast cancer.
When Linda was recovering from surgery, he discovered something he could do to ease the stress. He took photos of himself in odd locations wearing a pink tutu.
“It makes us laugh,” Linda told Yahoo News.
Oddly enough, the cancer has taught the couple that life is good.
“Dealing with it can be hard,” they wrote on their website. “But, sometimes the very best thing—no, the only thing—we can do to face another day is to laugh at ourselves, and share a laugh with others.”
Almost 800 people came together in Islamabad yesterday to release floating lanterns into the night sky in front of Parliament to spread a message of peace for the country and the world.
“It’s Pakistan Day, and what better day to spread the message of peace,” the project’s founder told the International Herald Tribune. “In these trying times we need to do everything within our capability to create a positive image for our country.”
An 85-year-old South Carolina woman who was robbed of $400 in cash that she’d saved for eye surgery was given free medical care after a doctor saw her story on the news.
Dr. Budev of Carolina Cataract Center wasn’t the only one who saw the report and was moved to action. A one-time thief who’d stolen a woman’s purse, sent a $500 check to help atone for his crime.
“There’s so many good things that’s happened out of this that I never dreamed would happen and it makes a big difference,” Ida Sue Collins told Live 5 News.
(WATCH the video below, or READ the story at Live5News.com)
An expansive survey from the job site CareerBliss.com revealed the top ten happiest professions in America.
Bosses, co-workers, daily tasks and the level of control they feel over their work all contributed to making Biotech careers the No. 1 happiest job. The No. 2 career on the list was customer service, with employees enjoying the ability to talk to people every day.
The fact that education employees rated No. 3, while legal professionals landed at the bottom, showed that “money can’t buy love–even for your job”.
An expansive survey from the job site CareerBliss.com revealed the top ten happiest professions in America.
Bosses, co-workers, daily tasks and the level of control they feel over their work all contributed to making Biotech careers the No. 1 happiest job. The No. 2 career on the list was customer service, with employees enjoying the ability to talk to people every day.
The fact that education employees rated No. 3, while legal professionals landed at the bottom, showed that “money can’t buy love–even for your job”.
A brightly painted old shipping container with solar panels on its roof and high-specification filtration devices inside looks out of place in the dusty Angolan village.
But it will soon be providing nearly 20,000 liters a day of clean, drinkable water to the area’s 500 residents who currently rely on the dirty nearby river.
American truck driver Mike Schiotis, his voice quaking and eyes tearing up, told a group of trucking journalists last night how he saved a passers-by’s life and how he was scared that he was going to die.
Schiotis, a driver for Panther Expedited Services Inc., was en route to his destination in Pennsylvania when he noticed a female pedestrian with a man walking closely behind her. He slowed to take a closer look and realized the man had a gun.
That’s when the fear hit. He had one hand on the gear shift while thinking that everything would be okay if he just kept driving, reports Today’s Trucking. “But, something inside me made me stop.”
Thinking quickly, Mike stopped his truck and stepped between the man and the woman. He ushered the woman into his truck and drove away as the gunman returned to his car and began following Mike’s rig. Working with another truck driver, Mike evaded the gunman, giving law enforcement officials enough time to arrive on the scene.
A mother duck and her ducklings visited the White House Wednesday, but the mom was the only one of the group big enough to jump the concrete barrier beneath the fence.
Her young ducklings were stuck milling about on the sidewalk below until armed guards came to the rescue.
Two uniformed Secret Service agents saw the separation and came to the ducklings’ aid, lifting each baby through the fence.
Tourists gave the agents a big round of applause afterward.
(WATCH the video from NBC via the Rachel Maddow Show)
A mother duck and her ducklings visited the White House Wednesday, but the mom was the only one of the group big enough to jump the concrete barrier beneath the fence.
Her young ducklings were stuck milling about on the sidewalk below until armed guards came to the rescue.
Two uniformed Secret Service agents saw the separation and came to the ducklings’ aid, lifting each baby through the fence.
Tom Porter says he doesn’t think he’s a hero, but he’ll soon have a bronze medal that says he is.
The Texas resident was awarded a Carnegie Hero medal for pulling a 1-year-old girl from a burning vehicle.
The national award is given to people who perform extraordinary acts of bravery to save the lives of others. Porter was among 20 people from across the country, some of whom died during their attempted rescues, recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Wednesday.
Not wanting to be outdone by her 75-year-old paragliding son, Mary Allen Hardison of Ogden, Utah, took flight on her birthday, becoming the “Oldest Female to Paraglide Tandem” — an achievement described Tuesday by Guinness World Records as a “celebration of the start of spring and life rejuvenated.”
“I didn’t want him to do something that I couldn’t do,” the 101-year-old great, great grandmother said.
She didn’t know anything about breaking a record. She just wanted to have fun.
Not wanting to be outdone by her 75-year-old paragliding son, Mary Allen Hardison of Ogden, Utah, took flight on her birthday, becoming the “Oldest Female to Paraglide Tandem” — an achievement described Tuesday by Guinness World Records as a “celebration of the start of spring and life rejuvenated.”
“I didn’t want him to do something that I couldn’t do,” the 101-year-old great, great grandmother said.
She didn’t know anything about breaking a record. She just wanted to have fun.
A New York City site once known for the size of its garbage heaps will be home to alternative energy sources that could power 6,000 homes, now that the city is soliciting bids to build and operate a wind farm and solar power plant at Staten Island’s Fresh Kills landfill.
With 75 acres available for lease, city officials say the project at the closed landfill could generate 20 megawatts of renewable energy.
A Boston cat miraculously survived a fall from a 19th floor apartment window, walking away with only minor bruising.
The feline’s owner, who left the window open a crack before leaving for work, says that the white cat luckily landed on a small patch of grass and mulch.
Orlando Bloom has an eco-house; Prince Charles has built a sustainable home, and now a major developer plans to build 500 eco-homes in Devon. Despite the economic gloom, the green way of building has never been more popular – 7,000 projects last year, a number that has more than doubled since 2009.
For instance, the “greenest” dog rescue center in the world (photo, right) is a cutting edge £5.25 million eco-friendly re-development for the Dogs Trust in Shrewsbury built by the McPhillips contracting group.
And soon, it seems, all building work in Britain could be green.
The windows of an empty storefront on one corner of Harvard Square are covered with colorful Post-it Note tributes, personal messages about those who inspire us, from fourth-grade teachers to Tim Tebow to Aunt Lindsay.
It all started with one, simple little message:
“Who Inspires You?”
Pedestrians walking by have contributed to the public displays of affection with enthusiasm.
The young man in this video looks like he’s riding a Segway. But Yusuf Akturkoglu was paralyzed after falling from a horse five years ago, and he’s being mobilized by an amazing device invented by Turkish scientists. It’s going to change lives.
It’s called the Tek Robotic Mobilization Device, and it not only allows people who can’t walk get around more independently than any device has before, but it also helps them stand up on their own, which is crucial for maintaining basic health functions in people who have spinal cord injuries.
