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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...
De Beers to Help Reduce Poverty for Diamond Miners
Last Friday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Jonathan Oppenheimer, Director of De Beers, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete announced a $2...
The Top Ten Green Buildings for 2006
This summer, the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design...
Katrina, Rita Create Unexpected Boom
Despite dire forecasts that Gulf Coast governors would have to slash state budgets in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita one year...
Man Recovered From Parkinson’s Uses Holistic Regimen
In 1995, John Coleman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and suffered from the loss of speech and the inability to walk 5 meters without...
UNICEF Launches $150M Recovery Plan Restoring Schools, Clinics Lost in Pakistan Quake
UNICEF will construct 500 permanent schools and some 70 permanent rural health centres in northern Pakistan, the UN Children's Fund said on Wednesday, where...
Muslims Have Been Integral to Britain Over the Centuries
(CGNews) - The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister is often surprised when he hears people talking as if Britain's encounter with Islam and the Muslim world...
Gay Couples Parent Just Like Everybody Else
Hearing the voices recently insisting that it is best for a child to grow up with one father and one mother reminds me of...
Ride Your Bike to Work Week: More People Peddling to Jobs
2005 was one of the top years for bike sales in the U.S. with 20 million bikes sold. 2006 promises to be a record...
New Orleans gets $60 Million Boost from Tiny Arab Nation
New Orleans receives a big boost this week from the small Persian Gulf country of Qatar who is paying-up a large chunk of the...
G is for Genus Apis
EDITOR'S BLOG The full name of the honeybee that arrived at my backdoor in a huge swarming mass is Apis mellifera ligustica. We...
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...
Fat Man Walking: Losing Pounds and Gaining Peace
Steve Vaught is an unlikely celebrity:
"...A morbidly obese man who has captured the heart of America by walking alone across the country on a...
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...
Cancer and Christmas Both Begin with C
We can even use holidays to enrich the soul and strengthen it for harder times, so that when those times come, as they will...
Wildlife Thrives in Restored Chicago Wetlands
The northwest corner of Chicago, framed by the lanes of traffic along Interstate 94 and State Route 14, seems an unlikely address for wildlife....
Nursing Homes: Transforming Homes for the Dying into Homes for the Living …the Eden Alternative
When Bill Thomas graduated from Harvard Medical School he had no intention of working in a nursing home -- too depressing. “I went out...
The Flying Hospital: Medical Missions of Mercy
"The Flying Hospital", an L-1011 wide body jet transformed into a medical care facility, visited Ecuador on a medical mission of mercy for three...
Service Animals Help Mentally and Emotionally Challenged to Function
AIRMONT, N.Y. -- When Micky Niego knew she had to go out in public, the fear and stress could bring on a severe asthma...
Traditional Medicine Looks to Alternatives
Americans spend tens of billions of dollars on alternative therapies, usually out-of-pocket. But now, Oxford Health Plans, the nation's ninth largest managed care company,...