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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
WATCH the video below from CNN:
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.
WATCH the video below from CNN:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oprah Winfrey has made a career our of surprising people but on Tuesday night, the tables were turned as hundreds of her celebrity friends surprised her to say goodbye.
From Maria Shriver to Aretha Franklin to Tom Cruise, stars paid tribute to Winfrey during the taping of two shows leading up to the talk show queen’s grand finale next week. 13,000 fans crowded a Chicago arena to witness the spectacular farewell.
