Gene targeting drug therapy may offer hope for those with difficult-to-treat advanced-stage skin cancer according to preliminary data published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Treatment with the drug was able to shrink tumors and slow the progression of the disease for 81 percent of patients with metastatic melanoma.
A Haitian-born Canadian singer has taken leave from a successful musical career to help the earthquake-displaced people in his homeland by spearheading the building of a village.
But Luck Mervil wants to build homes that will withstand any natural disaster by using retired shipping containers as the main building blocks.
Mervil plans to use 900 retrofitted containers to construct a new village fit for 5,000, erected on a parcel of previously uninhabited land near Leogane, a coastal city west of Port-au-Prince.
(READ the story from The Toronto Globe and Mail)
Visit his foundation’s Vilaj Vilaj for photos and info (in French — and more design photos at Inhabitat.com)
Ever since the night 10 years ago, when Oscar Aranda, a biology student out of college, witnessed the gruesome death of a sea turtle killed for its eggs and meat, he has patrolled Puerto Vallarta’s beaches as an unofficial keeper of the sea turtle maternity ward.
He later founded a conservation group, La Sociedad Ecológica del Occidente, dedicated to protecting turtles that nest along Mexico’s northwest Pacific beaches.
From June through December — prime nesting season — Aranda and his unpaid volunteers watch over the shorelines where the turtles lay their eggs.
WATCH the video below, or read the story at CNN Heroes…
Ever since the night 10 years ago, when Oscar Aranda, a biology student out of college, witnessed the gruesome death of a sea turtle killed for its eggs and meat, he has patrolled Puerto Vallarta’s beaches as an unofficial keeper of the sea turtle maternity ward.
He later founded a conservation group, La Sociedad Ecológica del Occidente, dedicated to protecting turtles that nest along Mexico’s northwest Pacific beaches.
The University of Oregon is marshaling a veritable army of faculty and students in architecture, law, business, and other fields to help Oregon’s capital transition to a more sustainable and accessible future.
Short on tax dollars, Salem, a city of 150,000 people, will be the academic sandbox for roughly 600 University students in 25 classes who will devote 80,000 hours during the coming year.
Consumer confidence rose in August and home prices gained more than expected in June, easing some worries the economy is headed for another downturn soon.
The data shows “the economy, while it is not going on all cylinders, is also not sliding into this double-dip recession that people are concerned about,” Eric Kuby, chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management Corp told ABC News.
A Christian relief organization says its aid worker kidnapped in May in Sudan’s Darfur region was freed Monday.
Samaritan’s Purse relief worker Flavia Wagner was held hostage for 105 days by kidnappers but now is doing well and looking forward to being reunited with her family in the United States.
“We thank God that Flavia is safe and free,” said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse. “We appreciate the help of the government of Sudan and the United States government.
From Lexie C. comes this video of a daily friendship between a dog and a dolphin. Every day the dolphin comes calling to the seaside pier and calls the dog, who comes running…
Diagnosed with ‘ locked-in syndrome’ and paralyzed from head to toe, stroke victim Graham Miles was told he would never recover.
Doctors said he would be a prisoner in his own body for the rest of his life. He was able to communicate only by moving his eyelids.
Just a few months later, however, Mr Miles left the medics ‘utterly bewildered’ by taking his first faltering steps.
Brad Pitt was interviewed for Meet The Press on this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and gave a tour of the new homes built by his Make It Right Foundation.
Residents living in these affordable, sustainable homes now pay nothing for electricity because the homes make more energy than they use.
Another special feature is their flood resistant architecture.
Brad Pitt was interviewed for Meet The Press on this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and gave a tour of the new homes built by his Make It Right Foundation.
Residents living in these affordable, sustainable homes now pay nothing for electricity because the homes make more energy than they use.
Another special feature is their flood resistant architecture.
Exercise is a KEY to happiness. Research shows that people who exercise are healthier, more energetic, think more clearly, sleep better, and have delayed onset of dementia. They get relief from anxiety and mild depression. They perform better at work.
Also, although it’s tempting to flop down on the couch when you’re feeling exhausted, exercise is actually a great way to boost energy levels. Feeling tired is a reason to exercise, not a reason to skip exercise.
But even when you admit that you’d feel better if you exercised, it can be very hard to adopt the habit. My idea of fun has always been to lie in bed, reading, preferably while also eating a snack – but I’ve managed to keep myself exercising over the years by using all these tricks on myself:
Exercise is a KEY to happiness. Research shows that people who exercise are healthier, more energetic, think more clearly, sleep better, and have delayed onset of dementia. They get relief from anxiety and mild depression. They perform better at work.
Also, although it’s tempting to flop down on the couch when you’re feeling exhausted, exercise is actually a great way to boost energy levels. Feeling tired is a reason to exercise, not a reason to skip exercise.
But even when you admit that you’d feel better if you exercised, it can be very hard to adopt the habit. My idea of fun has always been to lie in bed, reading, preferably while also eating a snack – but I’ve managed to keep myself exercising over the years by using all these tricks on myself:
Understanding that many people are suffering from “compassion fatigue,” Angelina Jolie stepped forward on Monday to donate $100,000 to efforts to help the victims of the floods in Pakistan.
While promoting her spy thriller “Salt” in London, Jolie told the Washington Post that she understands “it is getting hard for people – they see Haiti, they see these other events … and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around.”
When Jenni Ware found herself unable to locate her wallet as she stood in front of the cash register at Trader Joe’s market, a stranger stepped forward to pay her entire $207 bill.
The next day, Jenni sent a check in the mail for $300 to cover the Good Samaritan’s deed — enclosing an additional $93.
A Facebook discussion propelled Carolee Hazard to give the extra money to a hunger charity.
She also sent $93 of her own money, added to Jenni’s $93, and donated the cash to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
But the kindness didn’t stop there. An avalanche of like donations started pouring in from Facebook friends, eventually totaling $100,000 in spontaneous giving.
USA Today reports the two women, who are now good friends, started the 93 Dollar Club on Facebook to collect donations from around the world to feed hungry families in Northern California.
WATCH the video below, or read the report in Huffpost…
When Jenni Ware found herself unable to locate her wallet as she stood in front of the cash register at Trader Joe’s market, a stranger stepped forward to pay her entire $207 bill.
The next day, Jenni sent a check in the mail for $300 to cover the Good Samaritan’s deed — enclosing an additional $93.
A Facebook discussion propelled Carolee Hazard to give the extra money to a hunger charity.
She also sent $93 of her own money, added to Jenni’s $93, and donated the cash to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
But the kindness didn’t stop there. An avalanche of like donations started pouring in from Facebook friends, eventually totaling $100,000 in spontaneous giving.
The Rev. Kenneth Haynes knelt in prayer in the baptismal pool inside Main St. Missionary Baptist Church as Hurricane Katrina started to rip apart the roof.
More than 120 members of his congregation who had come to the church for shelter huddled nearby in a multipurpose room on the second floor. The first story of the church already was filled with water and Haynes worried the building might collapse.
Talking about that day five years later, Haynes said God told him, “Stand on your faith, not on your fear.”
The church withstood the storm and has remained a rock for this community as the east Biloxi neighborhood has struggled to recover from the storm. It took weeks for the federal government to organize its recovery plan in east Biloxi, but Haynes said Main Street began immediately, serving three meals a day to survivors in the neighborhood.
(READ the story in USA Today)
Who said you have to be an engineer or a even a designer to come up with a car that gets 100 mpg? How about a group of US high school students in Missouri who designed and built a car that could get up to 450 mpg, with an electric motor that can be plugged into any regular home AC outlet.
Kevin Duley and his high school friends at De LaSalle High School, with the help of an adviser, began with a race car chassis, so don’t expect this car to fit a normal lifestyle. But the project meant more to the students, who have now transformed expectations for their own futures.
WATCH the video below from CNN
Who said you have to be an engineer or a even a designer to come up with a car that gets 100 mpg? How about a group of US high school students in Missouri who designed and built a car that could get up to 450 mpg, with an electric motor that can be plugged into any regular home AC outlet.
Kevin Duley and his high school friends at De LaSalle High School, with the help of an adviser, began with a race car chassis, so don’t expect this car to fit a normal lifestyle. But the project meant more to the students, who have now transformed expectations for their own futures.
Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama’s stimulus spending poured $814 billion into the U.S. economy, including more than $100 billion for science, technology and innovation projects.
“The government plants the seeds. The private sector nourishes and makes it grow,” Biden said. “And in the process, if we’re as innovative as we’ve been in the past, we launch entire new industries.”
(READ the Reuters report via Newsdaily)
