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6 Young Environmental Leaders Win Prestigious Brower Award
They are the green generation. Six young people who are doing incredible things to safeguard the environment were honored this week with the prestigious...
Down Syndrome Student Crowned Homecoming Queen
Not only does Rachel Cooperstein have Down syndrome, she participates as a regular cheerleader in the all-inclusive squad at San Francisco's Dublin High School.
Friday...
Four Cities Receive $12 Million to Improve College Graduation Rates
History shows that less than one-quarter of low-income students at community colleges overcome the challenges of earning a degree. Yesterday, the Bill & Melinda...
Poet Infiltrates Atlanta Streets With Stealth Haiku Campaign
We love stealth art campaigns here at the Good News Network, like PARK(ing) spots created in San Francisco, and soon to be in DC,...
Teens ‘Repair the World’ and Win Big Awards
Five honorees took home checks for $36,000 after winning the Teen Tikkun Olam Awards (Hebrew for 'repair the world') for being outstanding teen role...
Cool as a Cucumber: Fresh Snacks That Beat the Heat
Dustin Platt celebrated his 100th article last week as a food writer for the San Francisco Examiner. In addition to recipes, he discusses food...
Her Mission is Helping Senior Dogs Who Need a Home
A San Francisco hairstylist developed a passion for older dogs: those last to be adopted, and first to be euthanized, so she founded the...
New York Opens its First Electric Vehicle Charging Station
Mayor Bloomberg opened the city’s first electric-vehicle charging station at a commercial parking lot, adding some spark to a nationwide push to boost infrastructure...
Stocks Climb on Good News for Retail and Jobs
U.S. stocks rose, with the S&P 500 capping its first three-day rally since April, as a drop in jobless claims and higher-than-forecast sales at...
Good News About the Aging Brain
The middle-age brain outperforms its younger self in many ways. Despite the cliches of middle-age forgetfulness, it turns out that the mature brain...
Heart Attacks Down 24% Over Ten Years, 62% for Worst Type
Preventive measures to help people lower their risk of heart disease have been so effective that a new study documented a drop of 24%...
Baseball Perfection Popping Up More Often: 2nd Perfect Game in a Month
Through Saturday, almost 400,000 games were played in Major League Baseball's 135-year history. Twenty of them were pitched perfectly. But what had...
Bald Eagles are Hatching Once Again at Channel Islands
There haven't been so many bald eagle chicks on the Channel Islands in 50 years — since chemicals contaminated their food supply and destroyed...
Toyota, Tesla Will Build Electric Cars Together in California
Toyota and Tesla Motors have announced a surprise joint venture, augmented by Tesla's purchase of a sprawling auto plant, recently closed near San Francisco.
The...
Peter Pan, a Legacy of Giving to Children’s Hospitals
Following the highly successful debut of the play about Peter Pan in 1904, the Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie donated the copyright...
Designers Recycle Rags into Fashion for Charity
Give a designer a pile of discarded garments, torn, stained, or otherwise unwearable, and the unexpected can happen. The trench coat, right, was...
Breakthrough Method Predicts Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer
For the first time, scientists have discovered a way to predict whether women with the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer are at...
Red Kettle Donations Break Salvation Army Record
By nickels, dimes, and dollars, Americans donated a record $139 million to the Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign during the holidays, despite a continued...
More Urbanites Picking Fresh Fruit on Public Property for Free
Last fall, Eric Alperin, a San Francisco artist, heard about blackberries, plums and loquats growing on public property in his city and free for...
Instructor to the World! Math and Science Whiz Shares Lessons via YouTube
Salman Khan is a math and science whiz kid, and a natural-born teacher, who is now devoting his life to tutoring people around the...