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Encouraging Signs That Elder Care is On the Mend

Finally, for the first time, I have hope. I started my career in the aging field in the "mean old days" of the 1970s,...

Miracle Baseball League Helps Disabled Kids Play the Game They Love

Thirteen-year-old Justin Clemens loves baseball. Though born premature and covered with bruises after complications at birth, he's more mature than most boys his age,...

The VA Tech Shootings and the Need for Good News

EDITOR'S BLOG — What is one to say after the worst school shooting in history? And on the very same day, the worst bombings...

Shooting Victim Tells How to Stop the Violence (Video)

"Before Virginia Tech, before Columbine, there was Paducah, Kentucky. A 1997 school shooting there left Missy Jenkins Smith paralyzed, but not without hope." ......

Year after paralyzing injury, player strides back to Cornell

College athlete, Khaliq Gant, never gave up after his collision on a basketball court left him paralyzed. He's become an inspiring example of recovery:...
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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...
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When Doctors Say Your Child Will be ‘a Vegetable’

Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team competing in nearly continuous marathon races. And if they’re not in a marathon they're competing in...

Nurse arranges backstage visit for someone special

Jean Dennis is a nurse near Ithaca, New York, who helps care for Brent Larsen during his trials with Muscular Dystrophy and life...
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Delivering Flowers for Old People in Nursing Home

Today my wife made two very special floral bouquets and we jumped in the car and drove them down to the elderly home where...
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A Brain Tumor, the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

It appeared suddenly. Blackness blotted out my vision. A moment before, I'd focused on the cards that I held. Now I was blind. Then--like...