Community Service Starts...With Our Families?
"Maybe I should aim to be admitted into a community hospital," my dad sneered once. "Maybe then you'll actually spend time with me." Ouch. After retorting back "Most parents would be proud of a teen...
View ArticleWatch A Dude Tell Homeless He Is An Angel Delivering Christmas Presents
This Christmas, Stuart Edge went around to the homeless in Salt Lake City and told them he was an angel instructed to deliver presents from "the big man." As a precaution, he had an accomplice standing...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu: HRAC's Person of the Year
During the Carter Administration, due to the inexplicable appearance of the luck that befalls one once in a while, I was appointed to be country director of the Peace Corps in Lesotho. I say lucky,...
View ArticleHomeless Mother Receives Incredible Help From Strangers
Crystabel overwhelmed by amazing holiday surprise (above). Photo: Mark C. Miller Courtesy of: Mark C. Miller Say you arrive one day for an important job interview, but find there's no job, no...
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'Tis The Season For Pets To Look Adorably Festive (SUBMIT YOUR OWN)
Who doesn't like to look at photos of pets who've really gotten into the holiday spirit? That's why we've asked our readers to send in pictures of their furry friends getting festive. Here is a look at...
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Volunteers Help Newtown Archive Every Item Received Following Shooting
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of cards, letters, stuffed animals and children's artwork from around the world flooded into Newtown in the days and weeks after the shooting massacre at...
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2013 Was A Lousy Year, But There Were Some Real Heroes. Here Are 14 Of Them.
The year 2013 is mercifully drawing to a close, with much of it deserving little more than to be utterly forgotten. But here are a handful of men and women who kept the flame of hope in humanity alive,...
View ArticleThis Math Teacher Playing For Dallas Cowboys Hasn't Forgotten His Roots
AP/HuffPost IRVING, Texas (AP) — Jon Kitna will earn $53,000 to serve as the Cowboys' third-string quarterback for one week — and he plans to donate that money to the Seattle-area high school where...
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Off-Duty Cop Rescues Man From Burning Car, A 'Christmas Day Miracle'
A bomb squad officer on his way to work and two civilians helped pull a trapped man from a burning station wagon on the northbound 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks on Wednesday, saving his life, authorities...
View ArticleToo Many Nickelbacks
Confession: sometimes, when I am alone in the car, I sing to Nickelback. I sing loud and I sing with a smile, but I'm not proud of this fact...because Nickelback kinda sucks. Every song is the same...
View ArticleThis Yard Decorated With Crazy Holiday Inflatables Is Garish For Good Reason
Though some may call them eyesores, these blow-up holiday ornaments serve an important purpose this time of year. Gary Gropper, a neurosurgeon in Atlanta, and his family fill their yard every year with...
View ArticleHow A Facebook Post Answered This Single Mom's Prayers
Maria Gregg, a single mom from Gwinnett County, Ga., had fallen on some hard times. So a week before Christmas, Gregg made her way to the North Gwinnett Co-Operative Ministries, a local charity that...
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George Bailey and a St. Luke Haiti Christmas
"Wait for what?!"' shouts young George Bailey to the miserly Mr. Potter in one of the opening scenes of It's a Wonderful Life. Mr. Potter has suggested that the poor residents of Bedford Falls must...
View ArticleTotal Quality Schooling
John Simmons tells a story about a nine year-old boy named Jesse who had some bar charts he wanted John to see. He was a student in one of Chicago's troubled West Side schools. We're talking here about...
View ArticleTerry Hardin Grants Wish For 5-Year-Old Whose Santa Letter Never Made It To...
This girl's letter didn't make it to Santa Claus, but one stranger decided to be Santa's Little Helper and make her wish come true. Last week, 23 students in a kindergarten class at St. Rose of Lima...
View ArticleStudent Newspaper May Go To Court Over Ban On Word 'Redskins'
A student newspaper that was told it could not ban the word “Redskins” from the publication may go to court over the issue. Several months ago, the editorial board of the Neshaminy High School...
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How A Virtual Visit From Santa Can Create Christmas Magic For Sick Kids
When your child is spending a lot of time in the hospital, nothing is normal. You don't have time or energy to try to "do Christmas" and the outside world pretty much goes on as if everything is status...
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Imagine if Apple Stopped the iPhone
Record results for the malaria campaign It is extraordinary news to end the year. The World Health Organization's 2013 World Malaria Report in mid December shows that 3.3million lives have been saved...
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10 ways to rule at customer service, hint: watch out for astroturfing
I've been doing customer service in different capacities for the last 32 years, more or less... I joined IBM in '76, became a Systems Engineer in '82, did that into '93. And have been a craigslist (CL)...
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Valrhona Builds School for Local Children in Dominican Republic
When Valrhona Chocolate acquired the Loma Sotavento cacao plantation in the province of Maria Trinidad Sanchez in Dominican Republic, they wanted to give back to the community that would be a large...
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