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Teen Collects Books in French for her Second Goodwill Mission to Haiti

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Jan 9, 2012

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Giselle Osborn was among a handful of youth chosen to travel to Haiti this past August as part of a delegation to build eco-friendly homes. Working side-by-side with the local villagers, they not only had to contend with oppressive heat, humidity and mosquitoes, but also the torrential rains of Hurricane Irene.

Giselle laughed off the hurricane. “It was pretty scary for the parents back here to think that we were in a remote village with a hurricane bearing down on us, but it was just one day with a lot of rain.”

Despite the miserable conditions, the Georgia teen is headed back again in mid-January to help a group of girls orphaned by the catastrophic earthquake of 2010.

Substitute Cricket Player Makes Greatest Catch of All Time (Video)

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Jan 9, 2012

Cricket catch New Zealand - Bevan Small

A substitute cricket player, Bevan Small, 19, was a surprise hero last week when he made an amazing play for New Zealand by simultaneously jumping over the boundary line and throwing the ball back to his teammate.

The ball looked to have cleared the boundary but Small soared into the air back over the boundary rope and, still airborne, flicked the ball into the hands of teammate Michael Mason, saving six in the process.

Almost half a million people have so far viewed the clip since it was posted on YouTube, with some hailing it as one of the greatest catches ever.

Saving US Grasslands: Turning Back the Clock on Desertification

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Jan 9, 2012

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As grasslands diminish on prairies and savannas around the world, an innovative ranching technique that reverses the environmental damage of desertification makes its way to the US.

For a rancher whose livelihood depended on those diminishing grasslands, it was an oncoming economic and ecological disaster in slow motion.

But in Colorado, the grass came back. Today, “the grass has covered the sand.” A dozen or more sandy, wind-blown basins have become lush and green.

Online Yoga a Good Alternative to Expensive Classes

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Jan 9, 2012

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Trying to keep a New Year’s resolution to practice yoga? It might benefit you to schedule classes in a local studio, but for others, like blogger, Starre Vartan, the answer is a collection of online yoga classes from a website called YogaGlo.

Vartan pays just $18 per month to access more than 1,000 different yoga classes available online from the website.

Danish Navy Captures Pirate Ship, Frees 14 Hostages

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Jan 8, 2012

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The Danish navy says it has captured a suspected pirate mothership off the Horn of Africa and rescued 14 people from Iran and Pakistan who were being held hostage on it.

While participating in NATO’s Ocean Shield anti-piracy force, the Danes encountered the ship Saturday and after boarding it they arrested 25 suspected pirates.

Dog, Buried by Avalanche That Killed Master, Walks Four Days to Find His Family

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Jan 8, 2012

Corgi digs out of avalanche

A dog, presumed dead after being buried by an avalanche that killed one of his owners, dug himself out and walked for four days to find the rest of his family and their hotel.

On Wednesday a Cooke City resident noticed a Corgi outside Room 17 of the Alpine Hotel, where the Gaillards had stayed the night before the Montana ski trip, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.

Wires 10,000 Times Thinner Than Hair to Usher in New Computer Era

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Jan 8, 2012

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Scientists said Thursday they have designed tiny wires, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair but with the same electrical capacity as copper, in a major step toward building smaller, more potent computers, ushering in the quantum computing age.

The advance, described in the US journal Science, shows for the first time that wires one atom tall and four atoms wide can carry a charge as well as conventional wires.

More Than Go-fers: 4 Worthwhile Internships

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Jan 8, 2012

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The long-running joke about interns is that they do little more than get coffee and collate papers.

While there’s usually no escaping menial labor as an intern, some programs provide worthwhile career experience. For those lucky enough to land a position at one of the following companies, a full-time job might even be waiting at the finish line.

Read about the internships at NBCUniversal, L’Oreal, Garmin (for engineering students), and MTV Networks.

Charlie Sheen Makes Good on Promise, Sends $25K to Alabama Tornado Relief

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Jan 7, 2012

Charlie Sheen in Alabama hat, during tornado visit

“Actor Charlie Sheen quietly donated $25,000 in December to help tornado relief in Alabama, making good on a pledge to help survivors of the deadly twisters even though some had doubted his promises,” reports CBS.

The head of Tuscaloosa’s tourism agency, Don Staley, said a representative of Sheen recently turned over money that came in through a fundraising website that the actor set up after tornadoes last spring killed about 250 people in Alabama, including 52 in the west Alabama city. Sheen wrote a check that covered about $15,000 of the total amount given.

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Africa’s Rainforests ‘More Resilient’ to Climate Change

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Jan 7, 2012

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Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, a gathering of scientists has said.

An international conference agreed that the region’s surviving tree species had endured a number of climatic catastrophes over the past 4,000 years.

As a result, they are better suited to cope with future shifts in the climate.

Businessman Gives $5,000 to Disabled Man After Specially-altered Car Stolen

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Jan 7, 2012

wheelchair and car replaced for Miami man

A businessman has come forward to write a $5,000 check to Armando Fontaine, a disabled Miami man whose car was stolen on Monday night.

After seeing a news report on NBC Miami, the Coral Springs businessman – who wishes to remain anonymous – made the donation to help replace the car with wheelchair lift which is still missing.

Beyond War Horse: Other Heroes of World War I Include Pigeons and Garden Slug

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Jan 7, 2012

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Steven Spielberg’s release of “War Horse” has provided us with an opportunity to re-examine the vital role played by animals in World War I.

Set on the battlefields of the Great War, the movie tells an inspiring tale of love and devotion between man and animal.

Besides the horse, dogs, pigeons, and even garden slugs played important roles in winning World War I.

The most famous animal to emerge from the war was Sgt. Stubby, a bulldog terrier with a short, stubby tail connected with the 102nd Regiment.

New Yorkers Give $1.9M for Daughters of Slain Hero

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Jan 6, 2012

Policeman, Peter Figoski, and his girls

New Yorkers rang in the new year with continued generosity as donations kept pouring in for the scholarship fund for the children of slain NYPD cop Peter Figoski with totals nearing $1.9 million.

Figoski, was gunned down on Dec. 12 while backing up other officers at a home-invasion.

The Peter Figoski Scholarship Fund was launched by The New York Post and New York City Police Foundation.

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Unemployment Rate Dips to 8.5% With 1.6 million New Jobs in 2011

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Jan 6, 2012

Unemployment Rate 2010-2011, US Bureau of Labor Statistics

200,000 jobs were added in December, pushing the unemployment rate, down to 8.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Job gains occurred in transportation and warehousing, retail trade, manufacturing, health care, and mining.

The jobless rate continued its downward trend declining by 0.6 percent since August, as 100,000 jobs or more were added in each of the last six months. That hasn’t happened since April 2006, according to the Associated Press.

Unemployment Rate Dips to 8.5% With 1.6 million New Jobs in 2011

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Jan 6, 2012

Unemployment Rate 2010-2011, US Bureau of Labor Statistics

200,000 jobs were added in December, pushing the unemployment rate, down to 8.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Job gains occurred in transportation and warehousing, retail trade, manufacturing, health care, and mining.

The jobless rate continued its downward trend declining by 0.6 percent since August, as 100,000 jobs or more were added in each of the last six months. That hasn’t happened since April 2006, according to the Associated Press.

Cash Grants Allow Cutting Edge Science Experiments in UK Schools

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Jan 6, 2012

Students Science experiment in UK

Schools are being encouraged by the UK’s top scientific body to bring cutting edge science into the classroom.

Projects, funded by the Royal Society, include a bioreactor being built by secondary pupils in Cornwall to test the viability of getting fuel from marine algae and a particle accelerator being built by a team of Nottingham teenagers.

The Royal Society offered £45,000 in grants to bring science alive.

Cancer Rates in U.S. Keep Falling: American Cancer Society

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Jan 6, 2012

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Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday.

The drop is significant, even though it is small, because it has continued falling each year for the past 10 years.

Advances in cancer screening and treatment have prevented more than a million total deaths from cancer since the early 1990s.

Online Trivia Game That Feeds Hungry Reaches One Million Users

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Jan 6, 2012

The hunger-fighting game FreeRice.com announced yesterday that it has reached a milestone of one million registered players, who together are feeding the world’s hungry through donations of rice to the UN World Food Programme.

Since the game’s launch in 2007, Freerice players have already triggered the donation of nearly 100 billion grains of rice —enough to feed almost five million people for a day.

Hero Attorney Who Caught Arsonist: ‘This Is A Lot More Exciting Than My Day Job’

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Jan 5, 2012

Police deputy in LA -LA Times video

It wasn’t a veteran detective or even a full-time cop who finally caught the man suspected of lighting 52 fires in Los Angeles last week.

The hero is an Iranian-born real estate attorney by day, who patrols the LA streets by night as a “reserve deputy” working for the sheriff’s office on nearly a volunteer-basis.

The sheriff called Shervin Lalezary a “true hero,” saying his salary remains $1 a year.

The reserve deputy, who qualified in December to ride a car solo, was beyond his eight-hour shift when made the “arrest of his career.”

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