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This Is What "Second Acts" Should Be About
Photo courtesy of Joyce and Ted Kruse Joyce and Ted Kruse are wealthy beyond measure. Both in their 60s and retired, this husband and wife team of 23 years travels internationally, they operate their...
View ArticleThe Power of R: Maya Thompson, Rebel With A Cause
Everybody loves a rebel. Who doesn't love someone willing to take the fate of the world, and themselves, by the reigns, who isn't afraid to steer and redirect and knock down the walls which hold...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Blind Patriotism: Despair and Veteran Suicide
Why does a veteran take his life every 65 minutes? Some veterans have always suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), though it has not always had that name. Today, PTSD is better understood and...
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Building a Foundation for Literacy
When Sesame Workshop was founded in the late 1960s, we reimagined the way widespread technology could be used to advance educational goals like the expansion of literacy. Over 40 years later, we remain...
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Veterans Groups Look To Replenish Ranks
As a veteran of the Gulf War some 20 years back, Rosemary Morales-Vargas said she didn't think she initially fit in at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Montezuma Avenue in Santa Fe. "I remember...
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Boston Firefighter Rescues Siberian Husky From Ice-Covered Bay (PHOTOS)
Firefighters man, they just have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Sylvie, a 13-year-old Siberian husky, was playing with her owner and accidentally ran across a patch of ice...
View ArticleNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Law Enabling Local Regulation Of Puppy Mills
Last Friday marked a big step forward for New York state's animal rights activists, as well as dog-lovers everywhere. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill that enables local municipalities to enact and...
View ArticleDangerously Uninformed: Getting News to the Unsheltered
One Thursday last summer, the weather in greater D.C. was typically sunny, hot and humid. The Weather Service, however, had warned all morning about the potential for severe pop-up thunderstorms,...
View ArticleAre We Being Taught to Be Afraid of African American Men?
My heart is troubled to be reading about more racially motivated deaths toward black males. Alfred Wright and Kendrick Johnson are two names that have recently come up since Trayvon Martin and I am...
View ArticleAgnes 'Granny' Zhelesnik, America's Oldest Working Teacher, Turns 100 Years...
"See my two legs?" Agnes Zhelesnik, America's oldest working teacher, asks in the video above. "They still move." The home economics teacher, better known as "Granny," celebrated her 100th birthday on...
View ArticleMany Worldwide Don't Have Access To Clean Water
The chemical that spilled into a major West Virginia river last week forced about 300,000 people in Charleston and surrounding areas not to use their tap water over several days for drinking, cooking,...
View ArticleA Med Student's Pretend Examination Saved This Man's Life
Medical students, as part of their training, are assigned to examine "patients" who pretend to have various maladies. Remember Kramer's (fake) bout of gonorrhea? Only sometimes it turns out those...
View ArticleKeeping It Connected
My 2013 holiday season was one for the books -- I had an awesome Thanksgiving in Tahoe with my wife Ashley, and we split up Christmas between L.A. and Lake Arrowhead. I worked hard to balance each...
View ArticleAnother New Year -- And One More Chance to Choose the World We Want
The coming year is a crucial one for humanity, the future and the planet. Throughout 2014, in a series of global and regional deliberations, representatives from all member states of the United Nations...
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Jeremy Lockett Thought He Hit A $50,000 Jackpot, Discovers He Actually Won...
Jeremy Lockett got the surprise of a lifetime when he went to cash in his winning lottery ticket. Lockett, of Malden, Mass., went to the Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters on Jan. 7 to collect...
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Trinidad Oil Spills Leave State-Owned Energy Company Scrambling To Clean Up...
At least 11 oil spills have crippled parts of Trinidad and Tobago, coating miles of beach with crude as the state-owned energy company scrambles to control what's being called one of the country's...
View ArticleStunning Side-By-Side Look At London In 1927 And 2013 (VIDEO)
You may not be able to actually travel through time, but this video will get you pretty close. 86 years ago, filmmaker Claude-Friese Greene released "The Open Road," a famous collection of films he...
View ArticleHere's Why You Should NEVER Text While Driving (VIDEO)
A frightening dashcam video has captured just how dangerous it can be to text while driving. According to police, 23-year-old Michael Woody had been texting and driving around Fort Myers, Fla., in the...
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NFTE Philadelphia's Advocate, Cynthia Gouw: Actress, Journalist, Model and...
Cynthia Gouw's career is built on reinvention -- she went from model, to actress, to journalist, from an aspiring lawyer, to fearless advocate for Asian American culture, to compassionate community...
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Homeless Man's Heartbreaking Story Shows Everyone Deserves To Be Loved
The "Portraits of Boston" photo project aims to catch a moment in time -- a person’s expression, hopes and feelings in an unscripted instant. When photographer Ivan Velinov snapped a shot of a homeless...
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