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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...
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...
Palestinians and Jews: Working Together. Eating Together.
Palestinians and Jews have finally found a place where they can safely meet and listen to each other’s grievances and understand each other’s pain...
“Mom (or dad)… I Love You”
Past hurts stay in our minds and hearts. If we are lucky they can be healed while we are still alive.
Mom and I fought...
Good Samaritan Aids Traveler on his way to Damascus
Jackie Wilson drove into a Falls Church, Virginia shopping mall when for no apparent reason her attention locked on a young black man in...
Healing the Globe: 11 Bright Spots
A quick rundown of 11 bright spots that are healing the globe, from Cairo to California, from Bolivia to British Columbia, From Moroco to...
Irish Peace Stabilized by IRA Disarming
The Good Friday Peace process in Northern Ireland was collapsing. David Trimble, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was elected the first minister...
Las Vegas Used Car Dealer Saves Travelers Stranded After 9/11
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States, Don Forman, a used car dealer in Las Vegas, heard on the...
Scout’s Volunteer Garden Yields Harvest of Compassion, and Sharing for Food Banks
Marshall Levit of Houston, Texas, was 14 years old and seeking an Eagle Scout project. He looked at the large parcel of land next...
Sports Arena Rises From Toxic Wasteland
Instead of looking for land in the outer suburbs to house a new stadium for its basketball and hockey teams, the city of Dallas...
Africa’s Last Eden Spared by Logging Company
A Congo Republic rain forest full of rare animals and trees, one of the most pristine left in Africa, will be protected from all...
Natural Gas Buses Replace Diesel Fleet at Tourist Destination
Hearst Castle became the first California state park to operate with 100% natural-gas-powered buses. 16 new clean-fuel buses were unveiled June 23 that will...
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...
Whooping It Up! Cranes Return to the East
For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall.
It all started...
Healing on Her Mind; Surviving a Brain Tumor
As Cheryl Clark began a weekend horseback ride one sunny October afternoon in 1997, a time bomb went off. A violent seizure threw the...
Woman Donates Part of her Liver to a Child She Didn’t Even Know
While the season of giving flourished in department stores, the true meaning of the word was demonstrated in a hospital in North Carolina. A...
CARE Comes to Rescue: Builds Tremor-Proof Homes in India
CARE and The Federation of India’s Chambers of Commerce have joined forces on one of the biggest rehabilitation projects since a devastating earthquake ripped...
Moscow; A Happy Place to Visit
Much of what we hear about Russia or Moscow today is depressing. But according to an on-air “postcard” from National Public Radio’s Anne Garrels,...
Congress Votes Overwhelmingly to Restore Everglades
The House and Senate overwhelmingly approved a $7.8 billion project to restore the Florida Everglades and undo a half-century of human impact.
Rep. Clay Shaw,...
Deafblind Girl Jumps Out of Plane to Raise Money for Those Less Fortunate
In an autumnal morning sky, Nicola Henderson, 17, jumped out of an airplane at 10,000 ft. and free fell at over 120 miles per...