Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have located seventeen lost pyramids throughout Egypt after studying satellite images produced by an infrared technique that allowed them to clearly see the ruins underground.
With two pyramids already confirmed by scientists, they believe there are thousands more unknown sites in the region.
Trying to turn art into action, commuters walking near State and Madison streets in downtown Chicago had a striking new image in their sights last week: a giant, six-story yellow mural encouraging viewers to “Go do good.
The banner, which is hoping to inspire 100,000 good deeds by Chicagoans this summer is the focal point of a new campaign by the United Way of Chicago and the Chicago Loop Alliance.
(READ the story at Huffington Post)
Of all the activities NFL athletes are participating in during the players’ lockout, Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess may be engaged in the most physically demanding — and most beneficial to humanity.
Bess has been in Costa Rica for the last two weeks, and he’s not staying at a luxury resort. Instead, he’s digging drainage ditches and working with a group called Global Volunteers.
The number of home births in the U.S. increased by 20 percent over four years, researchers have found.
After a gradual decline from 1990 to 2004, there were 28,357 home births in 2008 — the highest proportion since 1990, the study in Friday’s online issue of the medical journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care showed.
The Internet gold rush is spreading east. A decade after the tech bubble burst and brought down Silicon Alley, investors are crowding back into New York’s start-up scene, pumping funds to start-ups.
The flood of money is encouraging would-be entrepreneurs to ditch Wall Street or Madison Avenue careers to set up companies in New York-centric industries such as fashion, retail, finance and media. Those businesses, in turn, are having an impact far beyond the city itself.
It would be easy — expected, even — for Mary Johnson to hate Oshea Israel. After all, he killed Johnson’s only son, in 1993. He went to prison for that — and toward the end of his sentence, he become a man with whom Mrs. Johnson could make peace.
He agreed to her repeated requests to see him at Stillwater Prison. She wanted to know whether he had the same mindset as the 16-year-old boy who had appeared in the courtroom years before. He didn’t.
“I instantly knew that all that anger and the animosity, all the stuff I had in my heart for 12 years — I knew it was over, that I had totally forgiven (him).”
(READ the story or LISTEN to it at NPR)
Even though they are still recovering from their own natural disaster, the Japanese Government is helping Alabama tornado victims, donating emergency supplies including 8,000 blankets and 150 tarps worth more than $120,000.
The gift is in appreciation for the prayers and relief aid the United States offered following the March earthquake and tsunami, said Japan’s Consul General.
Even though they are still recovering from their own natural disaster, the Japanese Government is helping Alabama tornado victims, donating emergency supplies including 8,000 blankets and 150 tarps worth more than $120,000.
The gift is in appreciation for the prayers and relief aid the United States offered following the March earthquake and tsunami, said Japan’s Consul General.
This video was created in order to show a side of Israel that the media doesn’t show. All across Israel, both Arabs and Jews are living together peacefully in the hopes that someday the conflict will be resolved. So next time you hear about Israel in the news, think about the side of Israel that they are choosing not to show you.
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics asked the federal government to redo the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that chemicals in consumer products marketed to American consumers are safe.
Hollywood actress Jessica Alba added her celebrity heft to the cause, joining leading public health experts this week to ask key members of Congress to co-sponsor the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 (S. 847), recently introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).
Having been inspired in her role as a new mom, Alba said, “Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can’t be the only solution.”
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics asked the federal government to redo the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that chemicals in consumer products marketed to American consumers are safe.
Hollywood actress Jessica Alba added her celebrity heft to the cause, joining leading public health experts this week to ask key members of Congress to co-sponsor the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 (S. 847), recently introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).
Having been inspired in her role as a new mom, Alba said, “Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can’t be the only solution.”
Tunisia and Egypt will be offered more than $20 billion in international loans over the next two years if they continue their transformation into “democratic and tolerant societies”, the leaders of the world’s richest countries announced on Friday.
In a gesture of western solidarity, Tunisia and Egypt were invited to the Group of Eight summit in Deauville, where a drafted communiqué created a new role in north Africa for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, which helped to rebuild former Soviet bloc countries over the last 20 years.
Consumer sentiment improved in May as job gains offset high gasoline prices and inflation expectations diminished, a survey released on Friday showed.
Consumers were also more upbeat about the longer term outlook for the economy, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey showed.
(READ the story in Reuters)
A jail-based brand that includes crispy potato chips, crunchy cookies and formal shirts seems an unlikely route back to life in the outside world for inmates in South Asia’s largest prison.
Yet efforts by the Tihar Jail complex in New Delhi to transform the lives of its inmates and prepare them for a fresh start through vocational training in diverse fields has created the successful TJ’S brand of goods.
The project, that includes a website to boost sales, helps to channel the inmates’ energy constructively, while building their self-esteem,
(READ the story in the Reuters)
More suburban downtowns are burdened with empty storefronts, but a growing number of Chicago area communities are encouraging artists to dress up the vacant buildings’ windows with “art under glass”.
“We’re trying to transform these storefronts into something positive,” said Pam Hamilton, a graphic designer and artist who is leading a project to use the inside of an empty storefront in south suburban Romeoville to display public art, starting in June.
Returning veterans find new life as they transition out of war and into a different kind of service, helping homeowners hit by devastating disasters like the recent tornadoes, first in Alabama and now in Joplin, Missouri.
The team came together for the first time in Haiti, following the earthquake 15 months ago. Now the disasters are hitting closer to home and the former snipers and medics are first in line to help, relieving not only the stresses of others, but their own.
You can donate to the relief organization, which helps vets to help others, at the Team Rubicon website.
WATCH the video below… (Photo by Team Rubicon)
Returning veterans find new life as they transition out of war and into a different kind of service, helping homeowners hit by devastating disasters like the recent tornadoes, first in Alabama and now in Joplin, Missouri.
The team came together for the first time in Haiti, following the earthquake 15 months ago. Now the disasters are hitting closer to home and the former snipers and medics are first in line to help, relieving not only the stresses of others, but their own.
Solar power may be cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels and nuclear reactors within three to five years because of innovations, said Mark M. Little, the global research director for General Electric Co.
“If we can get solar at 15 cents a kilowatt-hour or lower, which I’m hopeful that we will do, you’re going to have a lot of people that are going to want to have solar at home.”
Baseball great Barry Bonds has quietly pledged to pay the college costs for two children whose father was attacked on opening day of the baseball season outside LA’s Dodgers stadium.
“It was extraordinary of Barry Bonds, I thought. He didn’t say anything about it to the press. This was just a gift he gave the family.”
Generally, you wouldn’t want to hear that an NFL player went out on date with an eighth-grader. But that’s not the case with this story out of Morgantown, W.Va. That’s where Chicago Bears rookie J.T. Thomas stepped in and took the girl, who suffers from spina bifida, to her prom.
