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Head Off Allergies: Expose Kids to Pets and Dirt Early

If you are a mom or dad, and feel guilty about not cleaning your house often enough, relax. You've been doing the best thing...

Nerve Regeneration One Step Closer in MIT Lab

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Green College Courses and Degrees

Two opportunities for education, one green and the other coral (Gaia U. uses the color coral to distinguish the upcoming era of harmonious holistic...
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Businesses Set Ethical and Quality Standards

Today, Harvard University is among more than 30 business schools offering courses on social responsibility.* This is illustrative of many positive trends in business,...
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Why Good News? Counting the Benefits

Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...
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Staying Healthy (Naturally) is Smart Science

Thousands of Americans wrote to a small, but forward-thinking company to say 'thanks’ for inventing an arthritis treatment that works often when nothing else...
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Chicken Manure, Fats, New Source of Energy

Chicken Fat Heats Buildings - Alternative to Imported Oil University of Georgia scientists say chicken fat, restaurant grease, and other ‘bio-fuels’ are a good...
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Diet Linked to Hyper Kids

A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...
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New Microbe Destroys Chemical Pollutant in Groundwater

Scientists have discovered a microbe that interacts with a hazardous industrial chemical in tainted groundwater rendering it biodegradable. Trichloroethane (TCA) is an industrial solvent and...
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First International Positive Psychology Summit: Psychologists Herald ways to Live Happily Ever After

A group of upstart scientists, scholars and researchers in the field of psychology have decided that it is more important to focus on what...
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Persistence Pays for PhD Student Once Labeled Retarded

Dave Dawson's future looked bleak in 1974. Based on tests, his ninth-grade teachers labeled him mentally retarded. “My vocational expectation was to be a...

Thousands Raised for Cancer Research by 8 Year-Old Girl Honoring Dad

Why did Georgetown University rename its cancer research lab in honor a donation of just $5,000? Because the money was raised by a nine...
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Shoe Stores and Basketball Coaches Donate Loads of Sneakers to Poor Kids

Inspired by compassionate college basketball coaches and retail sales struggles, companies are donating millions of pairs of shoes to help children in impoverished countries. After food, clean...
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A “Point of Light” in Brazil’s Jungle; a Nurse is Honored for Her Work

Doctors Without Borders not only won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, but Kathleen Mahoney, one of its volunteers, a graduate nursing student at the...
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Michigan CEO Splits $128Mil Among Employees

Workers in Belleville, Michigan will never forget hometown businessman Bob Thompson, who sold his successful asphalt paving business for $422 million. He paid the taxes...
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Retired Parking Meters Raise Funds for Rainforests

Many people would be willing to donate a quarter for wildlife conservation, reckoned Norman Gershenz, a conservation biologist at San Francisco State University. Gershenz talked...
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Give a Gift That Will Feed Hungry Kids For Years To Come

Do you want to give an imaginative gift and feed hungry children in Chicago or Shanghai at the same time? Now you can give...
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Wildlife Thrives in Restored Chicago Wetlands

The northwest corner of Chicago, framed by the lanes of traffic along Interstate 94 and State Route 14, seems an unlikely address for wildlife....
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The Doctor is a Clown?!?

Do you like the academy award-winning actor Robin Williams? Does free medical care sound like a good idea to you? How about a movie...
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Extraordinary Speech by President Clinton in China

President Clinton's 10-day trip to China, the world's most populous nation and second largest economy, has concluded. For the Chinese, the trip was nothing...