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In Wake of Thwarted Bombing: What Makes Ordinary People do Heroic Things?
Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch passenger on Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, helped prevent the Yemeni bomber from setting off an explosive device on...
Documentary Validates Role of Placebo Effect in Controlling Health
A documentary released this year questions the exclusive role of genetics and medicine in determining and treating disease. It examines alternative healthcare methods that...
Blue Laser Could Lead to Autism Cure
Lasers could one day cure, or at least aid in the search for drugs that treat diseases ranging from autism to schizophrenia, according to...
New Batteries Boost Electric Car and Laptop Capacity by Thousand Percent
Stanford researchers say they've found a way to make a new rechargeable lithium-ion battery that produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing...
Finding Heroism in Forgiveness
"Kim Crespi doesn't think of herself as a hero. But earlier this month Crespi was honored as a Hero of Forgiveness." She has forgiven...
Free Online University Lectures Offer Eclectic Mix
As we alerted you last year, major Ivy league universities have begun offering lectures — and whole courses — on the Internet for free....
$33 Million Donation for Stem Cell Institute
Lorry I. Lokey, the founder of Business Wire and a regular supporter of education and science, will give $33 million to help build a...
Man Wins Nobel Prize Like His Father
Roger Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work with DNA and genes... just like his father before...
Retirees Win 100K for Creating Lasting Change
The Purpose Prize honors "what may be a new trend -- retirees taking on some of the country's biggest social problems."
The five winners of...
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...
Extraordinary Speech by President Clinton in China
President Clinton's 10-day trip to China, the world's most populous nation and second largest economy, has concluded. For the Chinese, the trip was nothing...
Ideas for Random Acts of Kindness Week February 9-16
Hundreds of communities and churches across the country are participating in Random Acts of Kindness Week, February 9-16.
You may have seen the bumper stickers....