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Paul Allen, Billionaire Philanthropist Delivers A Better Future Today
Do you think humans should strive to send airplanes into space? Listen for ET? Develop a real understanding of the human mind? Such ambitious...
Biggest Energy Companies in U.S. call for Caps on Carbon Emissions
Check out this lead paragraph in the online Grist magazine for April 6:
Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an...
HP Leads in PC Recycling
From Business Week comes an article about the movement in statehouses from Maine to Washington to rid local dumps of toxic old computers and...
Maryland Adopts Historic Global Warming Law Mandating Pollution Reduction at Power Plants
ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 31 -- In a major victory against global warming, the Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to the strongest power-plant...
Lost an iPod or Laptop? Check Online
Honesty and thoughtfulness abound. Check out this Associated Press story about people whose lost items are returned to them via online message boards like...
Harvard Course in Happiness Draws Students in Droves
The most popular course at Harvard this semester teaches the skill of positive thinking. 855 students signed up for a positive psychology course to...
One for the History Books, George Mason in the Final Four
Tom Boswell has worked in the Washington Post Sports Department since 1970, and been a D.C. sports fanatic for 50 years, and in terms...
Punks Against Suicide
A score of punk rock and hardcore bands are touring the country to raise awareness and much-needed cash for the teen suicide hotline, 1-800-Suicide...
Humanitarian Video Game Surprise Hit with One Million Players
Humanitarian Video Game Surprise Hit with One Million Players
Launched by the United Nations last summer, the first video game designed to teach children about...
Press Clips and Publicity
CBS Evening News Katie Couric's Notebook (Video) "The Good News Network is devoted to all the good news that's fit to print... When...
GE Is Going Green
The CEO of America's biggest corporation did something astonishing this week: He staked his company's future on its ability, in his words, "to define...
Positive Earth Facts from 2003
Non-Toxic Products
Chemical Specialties Inc. is successfully launching its arsenic-free wood preservative into the commercial marketplace. A mixture of copper and quat -- a commonly...
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...
Forgiving the Unforgivable
Why would Peter and Linda Biehl, a wealthy, conservative Newport Beach couple, leave their privileged community for South Africa to work arm in arm...
Record Numbers of Steelhead Trout Running in Columbia River
After decades of decline in salmon and steelhead runs, this year the largest steelhead run in the history of dam counts is crossing Bonneville...
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...
Old Enemies Turn Into New Heroes During Floods
Some good came out of the flooding that swept through Mozambique in 2000. At the same time as marooned Mozambicans on high ground were...
Chefs Give Swordfish a Break
Chefs across the country are taking swordfish off the menu. The chefs have nothing against swordfish, always a popular restaurant entree. Rather, by voluntarily...
Sage In Toyland: Slinky CEO Cares About Her Employees
I had to call Betty. I hadn’t talked to her in a while. I had met Betty a few years ago when I toured...
Basketball Player Dikembe Mutombo Gives $2 Million to Congo Hospital
Atlanta Hawks center Dikembe Mutombo has announced that he will donate $2 million toward the building of a planned $44 million hospital and medical...