Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus.
First identified in 1976, Ebola fever kills more than 90% of the people it infects.
The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to remain viable long-term and can therefore be successfully stockpiled.
Georgia may be best known for peaches and peanuts. But olives were once a homegrown commodity along the state’s 100-mile coast. They were introduced by Spanish settlers who planted olive trees at missions established in southeast Georgia in the 1590s.
A South Carolina chef said the freshness of the oil gave it a richness that imported olive oil, because of its age, doesn’t have.
Now, after more than a century, one family farm is growing an olive oil business in southwest Georgia, projecting 30 times the size of this year’s harvest within four years.
Christmas came early for three people in West Michigan when a stranger picked up the tab on some presents.
It happened Monday night at the Big Kmart in Plainfield Township. A woman, described only as “being in her 30s,” walked up to the layaway desk and asked, “Can I, you know, pay off some people’s layaway?”
A worker in the layaway department replied, ‘Well, are you trying to pick them up? ‘Cause you can’t pick them up if you don’t have an ID.”
And [the mystery woman] said, “Nope, I just want to help people.”
The day after the story aired on the local TV news, another secret Santa went to the Plainfield Kmart and offered to pay off 13 more layaway bills — to the tune of about $2,000.
(WATCH the video – with NBC advertisement – or read the story on MSNBC)
Christmas came early for three people in West Michigan when a stranger picked up the tab on some presents.
It happened Monday night at the Big Kmart in Plainfield Township. A woman, described only as “being in her 30s,” walked up to the layaway desk and asked, “Can I, you know, pay off some people’s layaway?”
Who will be named the Top CNN Hero of the Year and receive $100,000 to boost their selfless projects to help others around the world? Tonight we will find out.
All 10 finalists will walk down the same red carpet as the celebrities for the 5th annual CNN Heroes awards show broadcast LIVE on CNN.
Televised award shows normally hail athletes and entertainers for their latest career accomplishments. But tonight in Los Angeles, the celebrities will honor inspiring citizens working to make the world a better place.
The Top 10 CNN Heroes will each have their story told by celebrities, including The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, Jerry Seinfeld, Mary-Louise Parker, Miley Cyrus, Kid Rock and NFL Super Bowl champ and MVP quarterback Kurt Warner. (See all 10 heroes’ stories at CNNHeroes.com.)
Kid Rock will be performing the song “Care” from his platinum-selling album “Born Free,” while Miley Cyrus will be performing her triple-platinum hit “The Climb.”
Each person in the Top 10 receives a $50,000 grant. At the end of the tribute show, hosted by Anderson Cooper, one of the Top 10 will be announced as the CNN Hero of the Year and receive an additional $250,000.
The Hero of the Year was chosen by the public in an online vote that ended Thursday.
The CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, hosted by Anderson Cooper, will air tonight, Sunday, Dec. 11, live at 8:00 PM ET.
“We hope to empower these selfless individuals to persevere in their humanitarian efforts to create progress,” said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.
Eddie Canales
Eddie Canales’ son was paralyzed during a high school football game in 2001. Today, Canales’ nonprofit, Gridiron Heroes, provides emotional and financial support to high school football players who’ve sustained life-changing spinal cord injuries.
Taryn Davis
Taryn Davis was just 21 when her husband, an Army corporal, was killed in Iraq. In 2007, she created the American Widow Project. To date, her nonprofit has provided a community of support to more than 900 young military widows.
Sal Dimiceli
Sal Dimiceli has spent decades helping people get back on their feet. Through a local newspaper column and his nonprofit, The Time Is Now To Help, Dimiceli assists about 500 people a year with food, rent, utilities and other necessities. (See the GNN story)
Derreck Kayongo
Derreck Kayongo’s Global Soap Project collects partially used hotel soap and reprocesses it to save lives. Since 2009, the Atlanta-based nonprofit has provided about 150,000 bars of soap for communities in 10 countries. See GNN Story (subscription only)
Diane Latiker
Surrounded by gang violence in her Chicago neighborhood, Diane Latiker opened her home to area youth and started a community program called Kids Off the Block. Since 2003, her program has helped more than 1,500 young people.
Robin Lim
Robin Lim became a midwife after her sister died from complications during pregnancy. Since 2003, she and her team in Indonesia have helped thousands of low-income women have a healthy pregnancy and birth.
Patrice Millet
After being stricken with cancer, Patrice Millet dedicated his life to helping children in his native Haiti. His nonprofit youth soccer program provides free equipment, coaching and food to hundreds of participants from the slums and teaches them to become responsible citizens. See GNN story (subscription only).
Bruno Serato
Since 2005, chef Bruno Serato has been serving free pasta dinners to children, many of whom are poor and live in motels with their families. Today, Serato provides dinner seven days a week to more than 300 children at the Boys & Girls Club in Anaheim, California. See GNN Story (subscription only)
Richard St. Denis
Since 2008, Richard St. Denis and his organization, World Access Project, have provided hundreds of wheelchairs and mobility aids to people living with disabilities in rural Mexico.
Amy Stokes
Amy Stokes is redefining “family” for South African children affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty. Her organization, Infinite Family, has connected almost 500 teenage “Net Buddies” with nearly 300 volunteer mentors from all over the world via the Internet.
A savvy dog helped save a man’s life and fought off a mugger just a month after being taken in by new owners.
Trixie, a newly-adopted 11-year-old Jack Russell spotted a man who had collapsed in a diabetic coma and pulled her owner to him, leading paramedics to say the dog probably ‘saved the man’s life’.
Then just a few days later the plucky Trixie growled and bit a man who tried to steel Georgina’s wallet.
Billionaire businessman Warren Buffett is getting into the solar business by buying one of the world’s largest solar PV plants — the $2 billion Topaz project under development in southern California.
Buffet’s utility, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, is making the acquisition – the 550 megawatt project, due online in 2015, is being developed by First Solar using its thin-film solar panels.
Paralympic silver medallist Monique van der Vorst has miraculously become an able-bodied Olympic hopeful after a crash reversed her paralysis.
Paralysed from the hip down since she was 13, the 27-year-old handcyclist was hit by a bicycle last year while training in her wheelchair for the 2012 London Paralympics.
While recovering from the trauma, van der Vorst’s feet started to tingle and miraculously she began to move them again.
Over the past three decades, gold and silver coins have turned up during the holidays in the Salvation Army’s red kettles in at least 10 states, including Illinois, Colorado, Texas and Florida.
While some people drop a few dollars into The Salvation Army’s iconic red kettles at this time of year, others emerge and discreetly share diamond rings, real silver and rare gold coins — and many choose to do so anonymously.
So far this year, a diamond ring wrapped up in a dollar bill and valued at $5,000 was left by an anonymous donor in Spokane, Wash. and in Bloomington, Ill. a serial giver has left another gold coin in a habit lasting 20 years.
Also in Spokane, a silver coin wrapped inside a note that read: “I’ve saved this ounce of silver for twenty years, I’m unemployed for 13 months, my house is in foreclosure, I’m filing for bankruptcy and at 61 my retirement is shot but I still know there are families in worse shape.” (The coin’s estimated value is $30. Salvation Army officials stressed how much they cherish both the donation and its message.)
(WATCH the video below, or read more of the story at MSNBC)
Over the past three decades, gold and silver coins have turned up during the holidays in the Salvation Army’s red kettles in at least 10 states, including Illinois, Colorado, Texas and Florida.
While some people drop a few dollars into The Salvation Army’s iconic red kettles at this time of year, others emerge and discreetly share diamond rings, real silver and rare gold coins — and many choose to do so anonymously.
So far this year, a diamond ring wrapped up in a dollar bill and valued at $5,000 was left by an anonymous donor in Spokane, Wash. and in Bloomington, Ill. a serial giver has left another gold coin in a habit lasting 20 years.
You can’t put a price on the importance of medical innovation, but $100,000 will do nicely for a Cupertino, California high school senior.
Angela Zhang was among the top scientific students in the finals of the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology last weekend at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Competition judges compared Zhang’s created microscopic nanoparticle to a “Swiss Army knife of cancer treatment”.
(READ the full story at Mercury News)
Mayan experts want to dispel any belief that the ancient Mayan calendar predicted a world apocalypse next year.
“We have to be clear about this. There is no prophecy for 2012,” said Erik Velasquez, an etchings specialist in Mexico. “It’s a marketing fallacy.”
One of two remaining leaders of the Shining Path guerrilla group in Peru said his troops will cease attacks and is calling for a truce to start peace negotiations with the government.
Known as Comrade Artemio, Jose Flores Hala told journalists Friday in his jungle hideout that he ‘isn’t going to deny’ that the government won.
Jay-Z didn’t graduate from high school, but he’s encouraging others to value their education.
The rapper announced Thursday that he will perform two shows at New York’s Carnegie Hall in February to benefit the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation and the United Way of New York City.
“Education is super important,” Jay-Z said.
Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor, and “a day that will live in infamy”.
It is augustly remembered by Roger Hare as the day his father survived, along with many of his shipmates aboard the badly torpedoed USS West Virginia, because of the quick-thinking actions of a single sailor named Sylvester Puccio. And Hare wants everyone to hear the story.
“Typical of that generation, Puccio stayed silent about his heroics out of respect for the piles of heroes he witnessed — the boys who never returned,” wrote Hare in an anniversary column in the Auburn Citizen. “(Puccio’s) daughter, Pam Selden, did not know her dad saved many lives, including my father. So I used old Navy records to prove his action was crucial.”
Determined to spread this story of the man who saved his family — and generations of families, Hare wrote the story for publication. The dramatic rescue of a battleship appears online here under the headline, An Angel Sent By History.
The story now adorns the wall of a museum in Rome, New York where Mr. Puccio still lives.
Heartwarming tributes to Syl Puccio have occurred thanks to Hare’s publicizing of the story, including a high school in Phillips, Wisonsin that raised money to buy a memorial to the hero…
(READ the story at AuburnPub.com)
Syl appears in this local News tribute to the vets of Pearl Harbor (with advertisement)…
Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor, and “a day that will live in infamy”.
It is augustly remembered by Roger Hare as the day his father survived, along with many of his shipmates aboard the badly torpedoed USS West Virginia, because of the quick-thinking actions of a single sailor named Sylvester Puccio. And Hare wants everyone to hear the story.
“Typical of that generation, Puccio stayed silent about his heroics out of respect for the piles of heroes he witnessed — the boys who never returned,” wrote Hare in an anniversary column in the Auburn Citizen. “(Puccio’s) daughter, Pam Selden, did not know her dad saved many lives, including my father. So I used old Navy records to prove his action was crucial.”
The two things that have brought Michael and Roslyn Lieb closer together couldn’t be more different: Parkinson’s disease and dance, one slowly taking away, the other giving back in ways they never imagined.
Once a week, they head to an unusual Chicago dance class tailored for Parkinson’s patients.
Their disease is checked at the door as they lose themselves in the slow and graceful movement.
The free classes are offered by an internationally known troupe whose performances blend modern dance, jazz and ballet.
New cancer studies published yesterday are generating considerable excitement and anticipation among cancer specialists, who said in interviews that the results are some of the strongest data seen in years for new breast cancer therapies.
“This is an exciting time; it’s a crazy time, e-mails flowing one way and another,’’ he said. “We’re all talking. We have not been so active in a long time.”
Vermont has again been named the healthiest state in the nation, topping the list for a fifth straight year thanks in part to a high rate of high school graduation and low incidence of infectious disease.
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Hawaii and Massachusetts rounded out the rest of the top five healthiest states, according to United Health Foundation’s 2011 America’s Health Rankings, released on Monday.
All the hard-to-recycle packaging that keeps new Dell computers snug in their cartons but ends up in landfills is being replaced by environmentally-friendly bamboo material.
Not just good for the Earth, as with most eco-friendly upgrades, the step is easily taken for the computer giant because of its money-saving benefit for Dell’s bottom line.
Dell estimates that the decision to switch to sustainable bamboo will save about 70,000 trees this year alone. Because of this switch, Dell’s packaging is now easier to recycle as well as less expensive to produce.
