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Solar Impulse

Aircraft to Attempt Historic Solar-powered cross-USA Flight

A new group of aviation pioneers wants to attempt a flight across the United States with a decidedly more difficult twist thrown in –...
Buffet Hilton LasVegas

Hilton Hotels Sharing Excess Food With Hungry Egyptians and Americans

Hilton Hotels has launched a program to collect safe, surplus food from conferences and daily restaurant operations that would otherwise be thrown away, and...
Coursera media "Model Thinking"

Free Online Courses From Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Transform Learning Worldwide

A new online education platform founded by Stanford Computer Science Professors is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people...
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New Procedure Saves Dog Poisoned By Mushrooms

Veterinarians in Berkeley and a Santa Cruz doctor teamed up to save a dog who was poisoned by mushrooms -- trying a procedure that...
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Struggling Oakland Families Lift Themselves Out Of Poverty

Maurice Miller remembered how his mother was a poor Mexican immigrant, and somehow figured out — on her own — how to get out...
puppies behind bars program

City Tries to Curb Panhandling With Puppies and Stipends

When it comes to tackling San Francisco's entrenched panhandling problem, City Hall has tried just about everything: laws banning sitting on sidewalks, teams of...
mini Golden Gate Bridge in Kansas

Kansas Farmer Who Built 150-foot Replica Finally Sees Real Golden Gate Bridge

Four decades after "a scared 19-year-old kid" rolled over the Golden Gate Bridge on his way to combat in Vietnam, and after promising his...
Stethoscope

Prostate Cancer Drug So Effective at Prolonging Life, Trial is Stopped

A new drug for advanced prostate cancer patients has proved so effective that researchers stopped the clinical trial early to give all patients a...
whale rescue in Sanoma -CBSvid

Elusive Tangled Whale Freed Of Fishnets Off Sonoma Coast

A gray whale that had been tangled in a fishing net for more than three weeks as it swam up the California coast was...
Solar Generation USA in NYC

Road Trip Filmed Across America Shows Solar is Working

Following the sun across the nation, a crew of young filmmakers got a first-hand look at how solar is working for Americans -- in...
hospital surgery pictured in the documentary, US Health Care: The Good News

U.S. Health Care: The Good News – A New PBS Documentary

You don't often find the words "health care" and "good news" in the same sentence, but in a new Public Television documentary, we learn...
Hawaiian photo by Sun Star

Elderly Woman Leaves her $400,000 Condo to the Homeless

Before she died last September, Lelia Boroughs, 84, told her attorney she had no family to whom to leave her estate. So she crafted...
Kohls Green Scene store

Kohl’s Department Stores Honored as Green Power Partner of the Year

Kohl’s Department Stores has won its third Green Power Partner of the Year Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of...
AAA mobile EV charging truck

AAA Trucks Now Carry Electric Vehicle Chargers in 6 Cities

AAA is about to roll out the nation’s first fleet of mobile electric-vehicle quick chargers. The company, which serves more than 52 million motorists, has...
Sketchbook case for Sketchtravel project

Artists Raise $104,000 With Sketchbook That Traveled Round the World

A blank sketchbook was sent to 71 exceptional artists around the world who each illustrated a page. After four and a half years of...
iPhone local hero app

New App “LocalHero” Gives Opportunities to Help Friends With Specific Needs

A new iPhone app launched this week, called LocalHero, lets friends help each other by identifying the people in a person's social network who...
Quilt uses rock t-shirts to create art

Artist Turns Old Concert Tee Shirts into Valuable Quilts

Do you have a collection of concert tee shirts in the back of your closet from your old rocker days? A San Francisco artist named...
Captain Jihad comic book image

Ex-Terrorist Bomber is Now Comic Book Hero and Friend to Police

Hoping to persuade children not to make the same mistake he made, a reformed al-Qaida-linked terrorist has become a comic book sensation in a...
Rick Rescorla, 9/11 security hero inspires new award

Hero Who Predicted 9/11 and Saved 2,700 Lives, Now Subject of New Opera

A new Opera called “Heart of a Soldier” brings to life the drama of Rick Rescorla's heroic rescue of his co-workers at the World...
Sensei Keiko Fukuda reaches black belt goal at 98

98-Year-old Becomes First Woman Ever to Win 10th Degree Black Belt in Judo

After dedicating her life to the martial arts, 98-year-old, Keiko Fukuda of San Francisco, became the first woman to be promoted to judo's highest...