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Rather Than Lay-offs, Cabinet Factory is Making Dollhouses For Needy Kids This Holiday
Alpine Cabinet Company of Timnath, Colorado doesn't have enough work these days to keep employees busy, so they've come up with a creative...
Tribute to Abe Pollin, Washington’s Philanthropist (1923-2009)
Abe Pollin, philanthropist, developer, and the face of Washington D.C. sports, as the longest-tenured owner of any NBA team, has died at the age...
UN Hires Tinker Bell to Raise Environmental Awareness in Children
The United Nations yesterday named the Disney animated character Tinker Bell as an "Honorary Ambassador of Green" to help promote environmental awareness among...
Return of Looted Art Brings Hope to War-Weary Afghanistan
Visit a new exhibition in Kabul and see a selection of some 2,000 Afghan artifacts which were illegally smuggled out of the country during...
Italy Unveils Antiquities Returned by US Museum
Italian officials on Thursday unveiled 14 artifacts spanning from antiquity to the Middle Ages that were looted or stolen from Italy and recently...
First $1 Million Find for Antiques Roadshow
A woman who inherited some Chinese carved jade from her father has scored the first $1 million appraisal from experts on the Public Television...
Obama Steps Up Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
Calling it "a national treasure," President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued an executive order to bring the full weight of the federal government behind...
Indonesia Launches Southeast Asia’s Biggest Marine Park
A migration route for almost half the world's whale species which contains vast amounts of rare coral will be preserved in the Savu Sea...
183 Projects Funded for Fish and Wildlife
From the Lower Mississippi River Delta to the North Carolina coast, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will undertake 183 construction projects focused...
Humanity’s Earliest Written Works Go Online in World Digital Library (Video)
National libraries and the U.N. put some of humanity's earliest written works and illustrations on the Web this week at WDL.org. ...
City Scraps Transformed into Gold for Area Farmers
San Francisco is leading the way in producing high-quality compost to fertilize regional crops. In one year, 105,000 tons of food scraps and...
What Iran’s Jews say
ESFAHAN, Iran – Over the entrance to a synagogue nestled in this ancient city is a banner saying: "Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of...
McCartney Meets His Fans for Christmas (Video)
Sir Paul McCartney met with fans and signed copies of his new album Electric Arguments in a London record store, giving many people a...
King’s Memphis Motel Now Marks National Civil Rights Museum
40 years ago yesterday -- one day before he was shot -- Martin Luther King, Jr. predicted, “I may not get there with you,...
1,423 Afghan Artifacts Return to Kabul
"More than 1,400 artifacts protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland were returned to the National Museum of...
Templeton Prize Goes to Philosopher Who Says Barriers Between Science and Spirituality Fragment Us
Professor Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher who for nearly half a century has argued that problems such as violence and bigotry can only be...
A Beggar’s Lucky Day
It was late Saturday afternoon when I went to Cavendish to get movie tickets for that night’s movie. As I walked around the corner...
Live As If You Only Had a Month: Gratitude Part 4
In our continuing series, GNN-i looks at Gratitude and how it is essential for creating the life you want. Harry Tucker uses the letters...
Tom Waits: The Whiskey Voice Returns
For all you Tom Waits fans, Robert Siegel's interview this week uncovered the exploding humor and wit of a treasured American singer/songwriter: "The flavor...
Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Found in Bedroom
Reuters featured this yesterday: "Two lost paintings by Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico have turned up in a modest house in central England in...