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Growing Popularity of the Move Your Money Campaign
The Move Your Money campaign was started by American college students who formed a campaign to encourage their universities to shift their financial investments...
Oprah Educates Girls in Africa Despite Struggles to “Get It Right”
Nothing in Oprah Winfrey’s life has made her prouder than creating her school for girls in Henley-on-Klip, South Africa. And nothing, she says, has...
Survey Shows 3 Out of 4 Girls Happy With Their Bodies
According to a national survey released by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City’s legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy...
Positive Stories E-mailed More Than Negative: Study
Do people prefer to spread good news or bad news? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times...
Lindsey Vonn Defies Injury, Wins Gold
In one of the most stirring descents in Olympic downhill skiing history, Lindsey Vonn ignored the pain in her injured shin, a posible chased...
Old NYC Parking Meters Recycled for Bike Racks
Under the city's latest green transportation plan, about 225 parking meters across the city will have their heads hacked off and be turned into...
Wind Power Grew 39 Percent Last Year
Despite a crippling recession and tight credit markets, the American wind power industry grew at a blistering pace in 2009, adding 39 percent...
Relief Work Provides Opportunities for Haitians
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, said Haitian citizens are now being employed in...
‘Hope for Haiti’ Celebrities to Dominate Televisions Tonight
It took only a phone call from George Clooney to get the "Hope for Haiti" telethon started. Expected to be the most widely...
Miracle in Haiti as Rescue Team Finds 2 Kids Alive in Rubble After 8 Days (Video)
Cries of joy peeled from the mouths of elated parents as a joint New York City-Virginia rescue team in Haiti pulled out two children...
Football Fans Deliver Deluge of Donations via Text Message
As of late Sunday, the American Red Cross had received 2.2 million text messages pledging $10 each for a whopping total of $22...
Hollywood Reaches Out With Donations, While Clooney Plans Telethon
Celebrities are out in front of the effort to help victims of the Haiti earthquake, not only with their personal donations but with the...
Doomsday Clock Reset to Reflect Humanity’s Progress
We're one minute further away from global annihilation. The infamous "Doomsday Clock," measuring the likelihood that civilization will be toppled in a...
UPDATED: Search Dogs Mobilize Around Globe to Help Haiti
In the wake of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake this week, search and rescue dogs from New York City, trained under the FEMA program are...
Ex-Gang Members Take Bang Out Of L.A. Crime
From New York to Los Angeles, murders and other violent crimes are at a 50-year low. In Los Angeles, that's partly because police and...
Join Famous Drummers in Their Beat for Peace in Sudan (Video)
Drummers from Pink Floyd, Radiohead and The Police joined percussionists around the globe to jam for peace in Sudan. Sudan365.org launched a video this...
Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic Books Online
Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part...
Brazil Justice Rules for US Dad in Custody Battle
A five year court battle to retrieve his son appears to be over for a New York man. Brazil's chief justice on Tuesday...
UN Calls Non-binding Climate Change Deal an ‘Essential Beginning’
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the deal on climate change reached by world leaders at a United Nations summit in Copenhagen, calling it an...
Roto-Rooter Crew Rescues Trapped Dog
On Thursday, a Roto-Rooter crew used their drain equipment to help find a dog trapped in a foxhole in Upstate New York. After...