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Laid Off? Join the Booming Non-Profit World
Thousands of laid-off business leaders can find fulfilling new jobs by seeking careers in the non-profit world, which is gearing up to respond to...
Training Programs Helps Horses and Convicts (Video)
Colorado prison inmates are helping the U.S. Bureau of Land Management train wild horses. The program keeps the horses from ravaging their grazing land...
Turning Crack Dealers Into Chief Executives
A prison project in Houston is helping to turn criminals into legitimate businessmen.
Four years ago Catherine Rohr was a venture capitalist on...
Inmates Train Security Dogs and Feel Common Bond (Video)
Happiness comes to both the incarcerated and the canines that are being trained to sniff bombs at several prisons in Fla....
ABC’s ‘Persons of the Year’ are Inspired Lot
ABC's World News in New York chose to look back on some of the more extraordinary stories this year of people making a...
CNN to Give $100,000 to ‘Hero’ on Holiday Special
This year's Top 10 CNN Heroes were announced last week. Each will receive $25,000 and be honored during a televised All-Star Tribute airing on...
Service Dog Helps Soldier With Post Traumatic Stress (Video)
As one soldier deals with the trauma of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he's finding the treatment he needs from an unlikely source -- a...
Mexico Combats Police Corruption with Mortgages
What are the benefits of sub-prime mortgages on the culture of bribery south of the border? Give the Mexican police force access to home...
Mexico Combats Police Corruption with Mortgages
What are the benefits of sub-prime mortgages on the culture of bribery south of the border? Give the Mexican police force access to home...
2008 American Government Innovation Awards
Sweeping the honors for this year’s Innovations in American Government Awards are three states: Missouri, for its successful approach to rehabilitating juvenile offenders; North...
Talking With Enemies Gains Favor in Mideast
Negotiating with enemies instead of shunning them may be signaling the United States, Israel and European allies are changing Mideast tactics, analysts said. The...
Sanctuary Rescues Lions From Concrete Pens
Nine cubs, and an adult lion and a tiger, rescued from bleak Romanian zoos sniffed the grass and began purring loudly, taking their first...
U.S. Violent and Property Crime Dropped in 2007
With a steep drop in urban homocides leading the way -- 10 percent decline from 2006 in major cities -- the FBI's preliminary crime...
Sewing Portable Beds for Down and Out Families
A finalist in this year's Australian of the Year awards, Jean Madden, a young mother, is helping her country's 100,000 homeless brace for another...
The Art of Word Fasting: Today’s Word is ‘Jealous’
Just like we can choose to take the stairs, rather than the elevator, to strengthen our bodies, we can alter our thinking and create...
Unarmed but Dangerous
Hello, my name is Tawana Williams. I know that my story will bless your viewers. I was born without arms in Wilson, NC. in...
Inmate Hopes to Go Free After Secret Revealed (Video)
Lawyers in two states recently took the difficult and unusual step of breaking confidences to right what they saw as wrongs in controversial murder...
Disabled Iraqi Children Get Wheelchairs
A private contractor in Iraq noticed a need. Now prisoners in South Dakota are building -- and the US military is delivering --...
Better Diet Could Prevent Criminal Violence
"Improving the eating habits of would-be criminals could cut rates of crime and antisocial behavior by as much as a third, scientists have...
Uzbekistan Abolishes the Death Penalty
The trend towards total abolition of the death penalty has continued with Uzbekistan becoming the latest country to put an end to executions. From...