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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,...
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NYC Pledges 1 Million New Trees in Sweeping Environmental Package

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled plans on Sunday for a more energy-efficient city where pedestrians would be shaded by more trees while...
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School Enrollment Rates Double in Southern Sudan

The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running civil war two years...

King Abdullah’s Challenge to Congress: Act Now on Mid-East Peace

By any reasonable measure, King Abdullah's speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress was smart and courageous. He took advantage of being...

Instead of Hauling Water Up Mountain, New Faucets for Tajiks

For decades, residents of Kuldara, a village nestled in the remote mountainous region of Khovaling, Tajikistan, hauled water on their shoulders from the bottom...

Kevin Bacon Uses ‘Six Degrees’ To Raise Money for Charity

Kevin Bacon launched SixDegrees.org, a new Web site that encourages the creation of charitable social networks and inspires giving to charities online. Bacon started the...
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Countries Rally to Protect Mediterranean Fish Stocks

Fifty countries concerned about the depletion of fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea have committed to a set of measures that includes better netting...
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U.S. Admits Threat to Polar Bears from Global Warming, Moves Toward Action

(Updated 12-28) The Bush Administration has formally proposed to list the Polar Bear as “threatened with extinction" under the Endangered Species Act due to...
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U.S. Mayors Embrace Kyoto Protocol

In the fight against global warming, 320 mayors of U.S. cities have boldly gone where the U.S. government would not — into the...
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Doctors Orders: Kids Should Play More

A new study by doctors is calling for changes in kids' over-scheduled lifestyles with more time in the school day for recess. The American...
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Virgin’s Branson Launches Plan to Cut Plane Emissions

The Virgin Group airline chairman and British billionaire Richard Branson has proposed a plan that would cut aviation emissions and greenhouse gases at busy...

A Bright Spot in Today’s Middle East

For years, while working, I have watched world crises come and go. CNN changed the way war was viewed. As their satellites delivered...
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Idle Computers Get To Work on Cancer Cure

More than 60,000 people are donating idle computer power to a project that is ultimately trying to find cures for diseases like cancer and...
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Katrina’s Piano Fund Replaces Instruments Lost in Flooding, Restores Musicians

I will not be the only one with tears running down my face after some of you read this story. Katrina's Piano Fund...
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Teen Inventors Win $50,000 Turning Bacteria into Power Supply, Herbal Extract to Kill Infections

Great kids abound. They can tackle any problem in the world today. Last Friday the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for high school...
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The Top 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2006

Business Ethics Magazine has released its annual survey of the "100 Best Corporate Citizens." This year's list is led by Green Mountain Coffee...
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Teen Presents $18,000 Check To Injured Columbine Student

DENVER (Reuters) - A San Francisco teenager who raised $18,000 by running in a road race Tuesday presented the check to one of the...
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Staying Healthy (Naturally) is Smart Science

Thousands of Americans wrote to a small, but forward-thinking company to say 'thanks’ for inventing an arthritis treatment that works often when nothing else...
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Fishermen Take Lead in Helping Endangered Whales

The decades-old saga of the endangered Northern right whale has long stranded animal welfare advocates and the lobstermen on opposite shores of Cape Cod...
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Tour de Lance!

Paris - Lance Armstrong became the second U.S. cyclist ever to win the Tour de France and wear the coveted yellow jersey to victory...