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Panera Cafe Letting Diners ‘Pay What They Can’ is a Big Success

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May 24, 2011

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Readers of the Good News Network have followed this inspiring story from the beginning, when the first Panera Bread experimental cafe offered people hard-hit by economics a good and healthy meal.

Now, after the third donations-only restaurant proved itself a success, the verdict is in: People are good and willing to pay their fair share to help others.

The cafes allow people to pay as much or little as they can afford. The program, “Panera Cares,” is an example of a “community kitchen,” in which for-profit companies act in part like nonprofits.

(READ the new article in CS Monitor)

Obama Explores His Irish Roots on Visit to Ancestral Ireland

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May 23, 2011

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President Obama and the first lady are in Ireland today meeting with leaders and visiting famous sites. Perhaps most excited about the trip are the villagers of Moneygall, where Barack Obama’s great-great-great grandfather hails from.

Falmouth Kearney, an Irish immigrant who left Moneygall in 1850, has — 160 years later — put the charming little town, population 300, on the map. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was descended from one of the Kearney daughters.

The Guinness brewery even sent a master brewer to the town’s pub to ensure that when the President stops by for the traditional pint of Guinness, he gets a properly poured one.

Experts say that Obama is just 3.1 percent Irish, but Irish Americans, according to Politico, have “become fixated with turning Obama into O’bama.”

John F. Kennedy also took time during his visit to Ireland — the first by an American president — to visit his family’s ancestral home.

Later Monday, the President and first lady travel to Dublin to take part in a public celebration at College Green. Mr. Obama will address the audience at the end of the entertainment which will involve many well known Irish artists

(WATCH the video below from the Telegraph)

Oprah’s Last Show: How Fans will Cope After 25 Years (Retrospective Video)

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May 23, 2011

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Only three more Oprah shows to air before the end on Wednesday. They promise to be star-studded and tear-filled.

Winfrey announced in Nov. 2009 that she would end her popular daytime talk show after 25 years. Since then, she has pulled out all the stops.

Legions of loyal fans are in a state of disbelief that the woman who has been a daytime constant through four presidents, two wars and several recessions will no longer be there.

Oprah’s Last Show: How Fans will Cope After 25 Years (Retrospective Video)

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May 23, 2011

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Only three more Oprah shows to air before the end on Wednesday. They promise to be star-studded and tear-filled.

Winfrey announced in Nov. 2009 that she would end her popular daytime talk show after 25 years. Since then, she has pulled out all the stops.

Legions of loyal fans are in a state of disbelief that the woman who has been a daytime constant through four presidents, two wars and several recessions will no longer be there.

Teens Use Social Networking To Reunite Pair of Holocaust Survivors

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May 23, 2011

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While most students learn about Nazi Germany through books and movies, Naperville, Ill. middle schoolers have done real detective work to reunite two Holocaust survivors after 73 years.

Madison Junior High eighth graders used Google, Facebook and databases of newspapers to bring together Edith Westerfeld of Skokie, Ill. and Gerda Katz of Seattle. The two met as children on a 10-day voyage fleeing Germany for the U.S.

(READ the story in Huffington Post)

Maternity Ward Uses Music Therapy for Babies When Mom is Absent

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May 23, 2011

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A clinic in Slovakia has found a way to comfort newborn babies that must be temporarily separated from their mothers for treatment: classical music.

Using regular size headphones that appear gigantic on the babies’ tiny heads, the maternity ward in Kosice-Saca hospital has them listening to Mozart or Vivaldi, which calms their breath and heart rate.

Dog Crawls Home With Two Broken Legs After Tornado Drops Him Miles Away

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May 22, 2011

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Amazing stories of survival from the April 27th tornadoes don’t just include people. There are some amazing 4-legged tales of endurance being told including the story of one dog who just returned home yesterday. He is clearly battered, but alive.

Mason, a terrier mix, now rests in an Animal Care Clinic where he’s waiting to find out what kind of surgery he will need to repair 2 badly broken legs. Doctors think it will be a long, but ultimately successful recovery.

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Dog Crawls Home With Two Broken Legs After Tornado Drops Him Miles Away

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May 22, 2011

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Amazing stories of survival from the April 27th tornadoes don’t just include people. There are some amazing 4-legged tales of endurance being told including the story of one dog who just returned home yesterday. He is clearly battered, but alive.

Mason, a terrier mix, now rests in an Animal Care Clinic where he’s waiting to find out what kind of surgery he will need to repair 2 badly broken legs. Doctors think it will be a long, but ultimately successful recovery.

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Implant Helps Man Paralyzed for Years to Walk

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May 22, 2011

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After Rob Summers was paralyzed below the chest in a car accident in 2006, his doctors told him he would never stand again. They were wrong.

After three years of unsuccessful physical therapy, doctors implanted an electrical stimulator onto his spinal cord to try waking up his damaged nervous system. Within days, Summers, 25, stood without help. Months later, he wiggled his toes, moved his knees, ankles and hips, and was able to take a few steps on a treadmill.

Two Weeks After Tornado, Missing Cat Shows Up During TV Interview

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May 22, 2011

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Judy Pugh rushed to her hallway with her three cats when she saw debris spinning in the air on April 27th. As the roof blew away a wall fell on top of her.

Two of her cats survived, one hasn’t been seen since the storm.

Unbelievably, during an on-camera interview, Judy’s shaggy friend of 10 years came out of nowhere.

Adoptive Mom Helps ‘Give Birth’ to 43 Families

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May 22, 2011

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Becky Fawcett learned firsthand the exorbitant amount of money it takes to adopt a child when she and her husband spent more than $100,000 adopting two children. Becky realized that many loving and fit parents could live childless lives because they did not have large lump sums of cash for adoption costs.

In 2007, she started Helpusadopt.org to provide grant money to adoptive parents — regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Since its start, HelpUsAdopt.org has awarded more than $300,000 in grant money, and helped build 43 families.

Detroit: The Next Silicon Valley?

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May 21, 2011

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Tech job openings rose 82% in Detroit, with companies like Google and Ford hiring engineers in droves.

And, college grads in Detroit say they are set on an immediate career path upon graduation.

The Detroit founder of Quicken Loans, for instance, is currently making 1,200 new hires.

Over the last year, Michigan’s unemployment rate has dropped by almost 3 percent, the biggest over-the-year decrease, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

Detroit: The Next Silicon Valley?

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May 21, 2011

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Tech job openings rose 82% in Detroit, with companies like Google and Ford hiring engineers in droves.

And, college grads in Detroit say they are set on an immediate career path upon graduation.

The Detroit founder of Quicken Loans, for instance, is currently making 1,200 new hires.

Over the last year, Michigan’s unemployment rate has dropped by almost 3 percent, the biggest over-the-year decrease, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

Incarcerated Teens Build Solar Boat, Learning Life Lessons

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May 21, 2011

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The math and social studies teacher at Camp David Gonzales, a juvenile probation camp in California, worked tirelessly with a group of incarcerated young men to turn a kit of wooden planks into a solar-powered boat, able to compete against vessels built by high school students from across Southern California.

In the Ninth Annual Solar Cup boat race, the scrappy teen underdogs exceeded expectations.

(READ the story in the LA Times)

Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011) A Hero On and Off the Field

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May 21, 2011

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A friend once said that Harmon Killebrew was his only hero that never let him down.

For a generation-plus of Minnesota Twins baseball fans, Killebrew was a larger-than-life hero on the field.

But despite the long shadow he cast on the diamond during his Hall of Fame career, Killebrew was an even greater man off the field. He rarely let people down. That’s why so many Twins and baseball fans were grieving this week after the slugger passed away on Tuesday at age 74 due to cancer.

8 Ways to Buy More Happiness

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May 21, 2011

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What is the reason that money doesn’t always correlate with happiness? New research shows that most people make lousy spending choices.

A trio of researchers — Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia, Daniel Gilbert of Harvard and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia — have identified eight practical ways that shopping and spending can increase happiness.

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May 21, 2011

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What is the reason that money doesn’t always correlate with happiness? New research shows that most people make lousy spending choices.

A trio of researchers — Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia, Daniel Gilbert of Harvard and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia — have identified eight practical ways that shopping and spending can increase happiness.

Remarkable Rainbow Cloud Towers Over Mount Everest

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May 21, 2011

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Hovering in the sky, this rainbow cloud over Mount Everest took an astonished astronomer by surprise.

Oleg Bartunov, 51, caught the spectacle on camera during a Himalayas expedition in Nepal.

His two images show almost the whole spectrum of the rainbow in a natural event rarely recorded at Mount Everest.

Wild Lioness Adopts a Calf, Normally her Prey

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May 20, 2011

The full story appeared a few years ago on Animal Planet. The lioness ended up adopting six oryx calves within a year. She never ate any of them. She even mourned the first one’s death who was eaten by a male lion 16 days after she had adopted it. After that year though, they never saw her again. They called her Kamunyak, meaning Blessed One.

Queen Lays Wreath at Irish Massacre Site; Charms and Moves a Nation

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May 20, 2011

The Queen arrives in Ireland -BBC photo It was a moment of historic healing as Queen Elizabeth this week laid a wreath and bowed her head in a “hugely symbolic act of reconciliation between Ireland and Britain”.

The first ruling British monarch to visit the country in a century paid tribute at the Garden of Remembrance to the Irish rebels who died resisting British rule — a move that impressed even the cynics.

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